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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 55205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 19:47:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qxb6fw8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <698d2a57-db2a-1c8a-5fe1-305b1c37aea2@daniel-mendler.de> (message from Daniel Mendler on Mon, 2 May 2022 18:38:37 +0200)

> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 18:38:37 +0200
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 55205@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
> 
> One should add that *by definition* of the completion API, mutations of
> the supplied candidate strings don't take place. For example you can run
> completion on strings from the obarray:
> 
> (completing-read "Symbol: " obarray)
> 
> It would be quite harmful if the symbol names are destroyed in the
> process.

I think we have different ideas of what constitutes the "completion
API", or, more accurately, the area which you consider as "completion
API that doesn't mutate strings by definition".

> I don't see the completion API as a meat-grinder. It is all quite
> well-defined.

Many of meat-grinders I had to deal with were extremely well-defined.
There's no contradiction between the two.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-02 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-01  8:27 bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 11:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 12:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 20:11     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02  2:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02  9:46         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 14:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 21:06             ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 16:01     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:24       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:34         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:38           ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:47             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-02 16:43           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:48             ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:57                 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 17:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 18:35                     ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 21:18                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 12:40   ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 12:54       ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 13:19           ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:21             ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:50     ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:07   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:26     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 17:36       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 18:34           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 18:27       ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 18:39         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 19:01           ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 19:07             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 20:52               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 20:54                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 21:30                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 21:43                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02  6:31           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02  8:11             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02  9:00               ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 12:23               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-03 10:13                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 12:55                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-04  7:48                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04  8:24                       ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-04  8:51                         ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02  8:49             ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02  9:04               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02  9:57                 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 10:07                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 10:17                     ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 18:06     ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02  0:34   ` Richard Stallman

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