Re: [CEDET-devel] CEDET completion-at-point-function

[Eric M. Ludlam]

On 05/11/2014 02:24 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I've taken a look at improving semantic.el's
> completion-at-point-function, and I'm wondering:
>
> Can we use lexical-binding in there (completion-at-point-functions was
> designed assuming closures are not a problem), or would it be a problem
> for compatibility reasons?

Hi,

As far as I know, semantic-ia-complete-symbol (which is assigned 
indirectly to completion-at-point-function) has no external dependencies 
other than frequently being bound to a key.  For your reference, the 
entirety of "semantic/ia.el" was originally setup to be examples on how 
to use some of semantic's features to create different kinds of useful 
commands.  If this section can be updated as an improved example, I'm 
all for it.

Of course, semantic-ia-complete-symbol calls into other parts of the 
system for calculating completions, and I am not familiar enough with 
the lexical-binding topic to know if they would be negatively affected 
or not.  Is there a brief reference I could read about the topic?

Thanks
Eric