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Re: Documentation
From: |
Marius Vollmer |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation |
Date: |
24 May 2001 23:43:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.102 |
Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> I just realized that, notwithstanding Scheme's emphasis on values as
> opposed to names, documentation is almost always about names, aka
> interfaces, aka bindings, and only rarely about values.
Right.
> It's then a simple matter of policy :-) to decide whether we are happy
> to let `define' stand for `define/documented' in either or both of the
> two cases above.
I would be happy with that, for what it's worth.
I can imagine making a even broader distinction between (define name
val) and (define (name args) body). For example, I wouldn't have any
problems with letting the latter define a constant binding that can
not be altered with `set!'.