From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 37450@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37450: 26.3; `all-completions' PREDICATE for a hash table COLLECTION
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:23:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnvuyjjk.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d0182de-dba2-4850-b3c5-6ae6b336c44b@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:26:05 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Hope my bug report makes some sense in any case.
> My question seems reasonable, at least in my relative
> ignorance: why must the PREDICATE take also a VALUE
> arg when COLLECTION is a hash table? Why isn't KEY
> lookup sufficient?
Presumably because it's more convenient sometimes? In any case, this
interface can't be changed, because that would break a lot of code.
Closing.
--
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2019-09-18 18:02 bug#37450: 26.3; `all-completions' PREDICATE for a hash table COLLECTION Drew Adams
2019-09-18 18:26 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-30 7:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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