From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:50:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buovf3w9tb1.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:29:53 -0500 (CDT)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Yes, but let me first make sure I understand. Is the reason that we
> do not want _any_ symbol as car of the list that forbidding _any_
> symbol as car of the list actually seems _more natural_ than just
> forbidding lambda? It seems that any symbol other than lambda can not
> be mistaken for the car of an anonymous lambda expresion and hence
> could not lead to ambiguity.
One possible reason is that if we allow almost all symbol lists, people
will tend to overlook the need for a `lambda' special case, write their
code to use straight-forward symbol lists -- and odd bugs will arise
when lambda does happen to occur at the beginning of such a list.
Always requiring an initial "" forces the problem to be dealt with, so
will make such code more robust.
-Miles
--
97% of everything is grunge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 7:50 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 [this message]
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
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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