Function Entry: CLAUTOLISP-DOCUMENTATION-KIND

clautolisp-documentation-kind

Function

(clautolisp-documentation-kind name)

• name: a symbol or a string, as for clautolisp-documentation.

Returns the kind of the documentation attached to name's innermost binding: the symbol function when the binding was last documented by a defun, the symbol variable when it was last documented by a setq, or nil when no documentation is recorded.

The kind reflects the most recent documented assignment, not the current value's runtime type. A binding documented by (defun foo …) reports function even after a subsequent bare (setq foo 42) only if the function-doc has not been cleared (i.e., another doc-block-bearing form re-documented it as a variable in between).

This builtin is the companion to clautolisp-documentation; tooling that pretty-prints documentation (such as alref-describe) uses both to render a Function: … or Variable: … prefix.

The symbol function, the symbol variable, or nil.

None.

• After ;| doc |; (defun foo () 1), (clautolisp-documentation-kind 'foo) returns function.
• After ;| doc |; (setq bar 0), (clautolisp-documentation-kind 'bar) returns variable.
• (clautolisp-documentation-kind 'no-such-binding) returns nil.

• AutoCAD 2026: not documented.
• BricsCAD V26: not documented.
• clautolisp: implemented.
• Status: clautolisp-only extension; companion to clautolisp-documentation.

• No vendor reference. Specified by the source-aware-defun-documentation issue in this repository.