Subject: Re: bug#10416: 24.0.92; #'test-completion is inconsistent with symbol hash keys in COLLECTION

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:07:20 -0500

>> If COLLECTION is a hash table, then the keys that are strings are
>> the possible completions.  Other keys are ignored.

> And the docstrings of #'try-completion and #'all-completion are equally
> clear, and contradict that. They both say the following:

> ‘If COLLECTION is a hash-table, all the keys that are strings or symbols
> are the possible completions.’

Right.  So we clearly need to fix the doc.  Maybe also the code.  But in
the mean time I think the contradictory docs basically mean "stay away
from symbols as keys for completion hash-tables".

        Stefan