From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:33:33 +0200 Message-ID: <85d5q37zg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120207842 15523 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 08:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 10:50:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoHDz-0003Jr-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoHMP-00043c-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoGO5-00013t-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoGNG-0000yH-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoGNF-0000sf-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoGO3-00081r-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoGH8-0005pC-0x; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 101EB1C3DB68; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:36:33 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:40013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40013 Miles Bader writes: > 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. (lambda nil t) is a valid function. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum