From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:30:43 +0200 Message-ID: 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 1120208919 18764 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 09:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 11:08:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoHVa-00065q-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoHe1-0000qo-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoH2T-00048K-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoH2N-00047W-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoGwY-0003ks-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoH0U-0004KH-Rz; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2956347FE93; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:03:08 -0400") 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:40016 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40016 "Richard M. Stallman" 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 http://www.cua.dk