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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: completing-read
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:17:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34c219ed-5a1a-42f6-b449-67c37d87e5b5@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqd573iq.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de>

> > (completing-read
> >  "Complete a foo: "
> >  '(("foobar1" 1) ("barfoo" 2) ("foobaz" 3) ("foobar2" 4))
> >  nil t "fo")
>
> Shouldn`t that, nowadays, be more like '(("foobar1" . 1) ...'?

("foobar" 2) is the same as ("foobar" . (2)), that is, a cons
whose cdr is the list (2).  Nothing non-nowadays about such a
beast.

> So you cannot create a list like this (anymore)?

'("foobar" 2)
`("foobar" ,(length "ab"))
(list (symbol-name 'foobar) (1+ 1))
...



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-29  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28 17:44 completing-read drain
2014-05-28 18:16 ` completing-read Drew Adams
2014-05-29  1:54 ` completing-read lee
2014-05-29  2:17   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-05-30  5:12     ` completing-read drain

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