Re: question about completing read

[Joe Casadonte]

On 19 Sep 2002, Klaus Berndl wrote:

> First i supposed that the cdr of an element is returned when the car
> matches but obviously this is not the case ;-)
>
> Ok, what about these mysterious cdr's?

I believe they are ignored.  I guess it assumes an alist because
that's how it's often used.  I know in most/all of my usages of
completing-read, it's been with an alist of values.  You can then use
assoc to look up the cdr of the value.

--
Regards,

joe
Joe Casadonte
jcasadonte@northbound-train.com

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