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Re: Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 02:40:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> (defvar my-doc "Hello there")
>
> (defmacro my-fun ()
>   `(defun my-fun ()
>      ,my-doc
>      (ignore)))

Would you want the body to be stored in another defvar?  Then your code
would be even smaller.

I'm only partially joking, actually, not at all - is the function's
documentation for your code's readers really that much less important
than its code?  Maybe it's even the other way round?

Michael.




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