Re: Docstring hack

[Po Lu]

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not that familiar with lisp implementations - isn't Emacs's
> treatment of a leading escaped literal newline already completely
> different?  Is there a typical use of #" as a reader macro?

All other Lisps I know of use a regular string as a doc string, without
any special read syntax.

There is no special treatment of an escaped newline either -- AFAIK we
only apply that upon dumping, which is not a feature that is supposed to
be visible to user-level Lisp code.