How to see docstrings and other symbol information in Common Lisp REPL?

Question

I\'m completely new to CL, and I\'d like to learn how to read documentation strings and get other help information from the REPL. Something like help(symbol) in

Answer 1

Regarding your question about getting the type of symbol: there is no such thing. Or, more precisely, symbols are not just names of other objects, but themselves objects of the type SYMBOL. Each symbol can have both a variable value and a function value. To check if it has a variable value, use BOUNDP, and to check for a function value FBOUNDP.