From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:36:33 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120193781 16041 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 04:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 04:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, Stefan Monnier , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 06:56:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoDZP-0002ML-Rc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:56:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoDhn-0000T5-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoDcS-00078s-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoDcK-00074k-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoDcJ-0006pG-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.192] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoDLW-0006ln-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so118200wri for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:36:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FEVVaK9AYx3xaqDBx9Arnm5vkdO7Zr5rhrIkoCk9AgSRAZQneV/2jQYnCc1bMtSbNWEVuzf3+e4Y6v1HsqWkW6yBLuXwolxzgWam4b2ZM5p/+MYJku7yCewt+17KBJeGsd7HR/L44x+vWEC/fuxQIL4ua16zVZaxA4G+b1CHbAQ= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.37 with SMTP id h37mr384387wra; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40005 2005/7/1, Richard M. Stallman : > Let's recall how this came up: as a side effect of the change to allow > symbols as the car of cons cells in an alist. We could allow symbols > when they come from the car of an element, and not allow them when > they don't come from there. I think it's only ambiguous if you used symbols in a _mixed_ list -- one with both plain symbols and cons-cells with a symbol as their car. If the elements of the list are consistently one or the other, the pattern (lambda (arg ...) ...) can never occur. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.