Function

Summary

Searches for interned symbols.

Package

common-lisp

Signature

apropos string &optional package external-only => <no values>

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. 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.

See also

apropos-list
*describe-print-length*
*describe-print-level*
regexp-find-symbols