From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: miles@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities.
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:30:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3psu36i8c.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DoCk8-0000fV-8K@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:03:08 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The only real solution would be to add a first element that's neither
> a symbol nor a string, nor a cons cell whose car is a symbol or a
> string. Such as 0 or []. That is sort of ugly. It would be cleaner
> to say that lists of symbols can't be used at all. As you've said,
> that would be no great loss.
>
> 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.
>
> Any objections?
IMO, it looks like another arbitrary exception -- we allow a list of
strings, but not a list of symbols.
But I wont object...
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-01 8:30 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
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 [this message]
2005-06-30 21:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 3:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
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