Commit 8175027f authored by Francois-Rene Rideau's avatar Francois-Rene Rideau
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manual: clarification about locate-system.

Whitespace cleanup.
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@@ -2483,7 +2483,12 @@ exported as part of the API only for programmers who wish to provide
their own @code{*system-definition-search-functions*}.

Given a system @var{name} designator,
try to locate and load the system definition (but not the system itself).
try to locate where to load the system definition from.
(This does not include the loading of the system definition,
which is done by @code{find-system},
or the loading of the system itself, which is done by @code{load-system};
however, for systems the definition of which has already been loaded,
@code{locate-system} may return an object of class @code{system}.)
Returns five values: @var{foundp}, @var{found-system}, @var{pathname},
@var{previous}, and @var{previous-time}.
@var{foundp} is true when a system was found,