Subject: Re: newbe: documentation string length
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:06:26 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <XoqdnS7mp5d__hzeRVn-vA@speakeasy.net>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@nhplace.com> wrote:
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| CLHS does, by the way, have an index of FORMAT directives.  It's perhaps
| not the answer to everyone's problems, but in case people didn't think
| it was there at all (and it wasn't there in the early versions 3 and 4
| of the CLHS--it appeared in v5, I believe), it's in the Master Index, 
| Non-Alphabetic (since they all start with tilde), toward the end of the page
|   http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Mast_9.htm
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Actually, they're *also* redundantly scattered throughout that page,
in ASCII collating order according to the character after the tilde.  ;-}
E.g., if you look at "/" you'll find:

    /
      Function /
      Variable /, //, ///
    / (format directive)
      Tilde Slash: Call Function


-Rob

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