Re: [Chicken-users] Re: A few questions

[John Cowan]

Hans Nowak scripsit:

> Re docstrings: My next question would be, is it possible to add them (e.g. 
> as a library)?  And would it be desirable to do so?  Apparently it is 
> already possible to write code like:
> 
> (define (foo x)
>   "docstring for foo"
>   ...body...)

Yes, but that will not work for non-function definitions; furthermore,
(define (f x) "foobar") is ambiguous: is "foobar" a docstring, or
the constant result of the function f?

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