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#37450
26.3; `all-completions' PREDICATE for a hash table COLLECTION
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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:03:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: wontfix
Found in version 26.3
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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`C-h f all-completions' says this for this case:
If COLLECTION is a hash-table, predicate is called with two arguments:
the key and the value.
Why does the PREDICATE function need to accept a VALUE argument, as well
as a KEY argument? When an alist or obarray is used, the only thing
PREDICATE needs is the KEY to look up. I would think that that's the
only thing needed for a hash table also, logically.
I had this in one of my functions, back when `bbdb-complete-mail' used
an alist, before it changed to using hash-table `bbdb-hashtable':
(all-completions orig
THE-BBDB-ALIST
(lambda (sym)
(when (bbdb-completion-predicate sym)
(push sym all-comps))))
I had to change that to this, adding an (unused?) arg for the PREDICATE:
(all-completions orig
bbdb-hashtable'
(lambda (sym __)
(when (bbdb-completion-predicate sym)
(push sym all-comps))))
Why should the PREDICATE function need to change, now that a hash table
is used? The VALUE arg for the PREDICATE isn't necessary for hash-table
lookup, right? If that's right then why not have the PREDICATE accept
the KEY as a minimum? If some code wants to additionally include a
VALUE arg, it could do that. Can't just `all-completions' DTRT,
applying the PREDICATE to the provided KEY and VALUE if provided, else
nil for VALUE?
If `all-completions' were coded in Lisp I might take a look, to see
whether there's a good reason for PREDICATE to require 2 args when the
second arg to `all-completions' is a hash table. So far, I'm just
wondering. If all that's logically required is a KEY lookup, why make
an exception for hash tables, forcing the PREDICATE to accept also an
(unused?) VALUE?
In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17763
Configured using:
`configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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