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| 13.2.8  alpha-char-p | 
Function | 
  
 - Syntax:
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alpha-char-p
character
  
  generalized-boolean
  - Arguments and Values:
 - 
character - a character.
generalized-boolean - a generalized boolean.
 
  - Description:
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Returns true if character is an alphabetic1 character; otherwise, returns false.
  - Examples:
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 (alpha-char-p #\a)   true
 (alpha-char-p #\5)   false
 (alpha-char-p #\Newline)   false
 ;; This next example presupposes an implementation
 ;; in which #\\alfa is a defined character.
 (alpha-char-p #\\alfa)   implementation-dependent
 
  - Affected By:
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None.
(In particular, the results of this predicate are independent 
of any special syntax which might have been enabled in the current readtable.)
  - Exceptional Situations:
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Should signal an error of type type-error if character is not a character.
  - See Also:
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alphanumericp,
Section 13.1.10 Documentation of Implementation-Defined Scripts
  - Allegro CL Implementation Details:
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 None.
  
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