Re: Changes to completing-read

[Phil Hagelberg]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> The `lambda' is when the function is called by `test-completion'.
> The `boundaries' is a new functionality, still undocumented.

Thanks. I guess this will be documented before the release?

Could someone explain the meaning of `boundaries' please?

>> It's rather unclear from the docstrings, but from what I can piece
>> together, the "collection" function should act totally differently based
>> on the value of the third argument.
>
> That's right.  A better way to think of it might be that the "function"
> is an object (in the OO sense), and the last arg is the method to
> be executed.

That sounds reasonable. If that way of explaining it could be used in
the documentation I think it could be very helpful.

-Phil