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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Wanrong Lin <wrglin@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	39484@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39484: 26.3; try-completion bug
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:44:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lffq1snn.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuuetxbb.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:16:40 +0100")

On Okt 28 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> The case always matches one of the candidates.
>
> Yes.  An arbitrary candidate (well, the first one, but it's not
> documented, which means that it's arbitrary).

It is not nessesary to document each and every implementation detail.
That makes it difficult to change the implementation later, and it also
unduly restricts the way a collection function can handle that
situation.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-28 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 15:44 bug#39484: 26.3; try-completion bug Wanrong Lin
2020-10-27 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-27 19:08   ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-27 19:17     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-27 20:17       ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-27 20:28         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-27 20:44           ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-27 21:21             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28  0:44               ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-28  0:47                 ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-28  0:57                   ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-28  7:51                     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28  9:35                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28  9:42                         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28  9:50                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28  9:56                             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28 11:16                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 11:44                                 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2020-10-28 12:59                                   ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-28 14:45                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-28 15:47                                       ` Wanrong Lin
2020-10-28 16:34                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-23 13:17                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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