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RE: completing-read


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: completing-read
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:17:19 -0700 (PDT)

> > (completing-read
> >  "Complete a foo: "
> >  '(("foobar1" 1) ("barfoo" 2) ("foobaz" 3) ("foobar2" 4))
> >  nil t "fo")
>
> Shouldn`t that, nowadays, be more like '(("foobar1" . 1) ...'?

("foobar" 2) is the same as ("foobar" . (2)), that is, a cons
whose cdr is the list (2).  Nothing non-nowadays about such a
beast.

> So you cannot create a list like this (anymore)?

'("foobar" 2)
`("foobar" ,(length "ab"))
(list (symbol-name 'foobar) (1+ 1))
...



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