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From: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Why does completion require an alist?
Message-ID: <9008311659.AA14901@STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Aug 90 16:59:02 GMT
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Why does read-completion require an alist instead of an ordinary list
of strings?  Considering that only the car of each element of the
alist is used or returned, it doesn't seem to be a sensible
limitation.

Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu