From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, rms@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities.
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:33:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d5q37zg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0506302136508de362@mail.gmail.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:36:33 +0900")
Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:
> 2005/7/1, Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
>> 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.
(lambda nil t) is a valid function.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-01 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 2:27 Bugs in newly added completion capabilities Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 3:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-29 20:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 2:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 7:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 7:50 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-30 12:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 17:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-30 18:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-01 8:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-01 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-02 12:32 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 18:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-01 4:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-01 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-01 7:33 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-01 7:55 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-01 8:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-01 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-01 8:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 21:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 3:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
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