Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities.

[Miles Bader]

2005/7/1, Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden>:
> 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.

-Miles
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