Finding symbols
Figure 4-1 The apropos window
The apropos window provides access to the apropos function with a number of additional options. You can restrict the types of symbols returned (i.e. only symbols with function definitions, class definitions, etc. will be returned, if so specified); you can specify two strings and only view symbols which contain both, either of, or one but not the other of the strings.
Once you have found a symbol, you can select it and then perform a number of different actions on it, such as inspecting it, locating its source code, documentation string, etc. If you are performing one of these actions on a generic function, you can redirect it to a method on the generic function by choosing the specializers and/or qualifiers of the method you wish to operate on.
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