[External] : Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2021 at 5:24 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, 
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'
>
> > > Why is `:documentation' supported only for
> > > lexical-binding buffers?
> >
> > Reason in terms of user expectation behavior?  Yes
>
> Why on earth would a user expect that :documentation
> works only if `lexical-binding' is non-nil, even for
> code that involves no lexically bound variables?

Quite Right.