[Sbcl-devel] Re: DEFGENERIC bug

[Paul F. D. <di...@dl...>]

Nathan J. Froyd wrote:
> The CLHS says, "The :documentation argument is a documentation string to
> be attached to the generic function object, and to be attached with kind
> function to the function-name."
> 
> (defgeneric foo (bar baz)
>   (:documentation "Frobs BAR with BAZ."))
> 
> (documentation 'foo 'function) => NIL
> 
> (lisp-implementation-version) => "0.8.2.14"

Implementations are allowed to discard doc strings at any time, returning NIL instead.

	Paul