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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> > > (defmacro my-fun ()
> > >   `(defun my-fun ()
> > >      ,my-doc
> > >      (ignore)))

> > 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?
>
> Yes, obviously it is not practical, but it works. And is not me who
> defines those functions. I am generating 50+ function aliases by
> Drew's suggestion: [...]

Such a loop with even automatically generated docstrings using a
template is of course a different issue that doing that for one function
as in the example above.

Michael.