Re: [spr4535] a simple question

[smh@franz.com (Steve Haflich)]

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   Why is the symbol VARIABLE exported from the common-lisp package?
   I didn't see a reference to the symbol VARIABLE in CLtL 2.

It's pretty well hidden: Check out the second argument to the
DOCUMENTATION function, CLtL2 p.695.  The legal values are VARIABLE,
STRUCTURE, TYPE, FUNCTION, SETF and METHOD-COMBINATION (see the CLOS
chapter).  The first two of these symbols are exported from the
common-lisp package for the sole purpose of the DOCUMENTATION
function, but all the others have other uses.