[slime-devel] Re: ;; Interface

Peter Seibel peter@gigamonkeys.com writes:

In slime.el what do the comments ";; Interface" before certain functions mean? That they are part of the user interface or part of the SLIME/SWANK interface? Or something else?

I think I put that in to copy-cat the CMUCL sources. The intention was to indicate that the function is an entry-point and not just a helper, i.e. that it's important and exported from the package.

These days defslimefun and defimplementation tend to take care of that job though.

I like to put subroutines lexically beneath their caller so sometimes I put in little reminders of which is the "top" function.