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diff --git a/doc/ref/api-utility.texi b/doc/ref/api-utility.texi index 1305a9259..9f6766c71 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-utility.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-utility.texi @@ -181,13 +181,6 @@ Scheme object even though that object does not have a dedicated slot available in which the additional information could be stored. Object properties allow you to do just that. -An object property is most commonly used to associate one kind of -additional information with each instance of a class of similar Scheme -objects. For example, all procedures have a `name' property, which -stores the name of the variable in which the procedure was stored by a -@code{define} expression, or @code{#f} if the procedure wasn't created -by that kind of expression. - Guile's representation of an object property is a procedure-with-setter (@pxref{Procedures with Setters}) that can be used with the generalized form of @code{set!} (REFFIXME) to set and retrieve that property for any |