apropos

apropos Function

Summary

Searches for interned symbols.

Package

common-lisp

Signature

apropos string &optional package external-only

Arguments

`string`⇩	A string designator.
`package`⇩	A package designator or `nil`.
`external-only`⇩	A generalized boolean.

Description

The function apropos behaves as specified in ANSI Common Lisp w.r.t. string and package. There is an additional optional argument external-only, which if true restricts the search to symbols which are external in the searched package or packages. The default value of external-only is nil.