hi all,
after today's "cvs up", I read in the changelog:
* swank.lisp (completions): Slight change of semantics: when a prefix-designator is package-qualified, like "swank:", only match symbols whose home-package matches the one given - ignore inherited symbols.
I think this leads to unexpected and not-so-useful behaviour. In short, as Krystof said on IRC, "if the symbol is exported from a given package, it's irrelevant what its home package is". To elaborate:
This will break with interface packages, i.e. ones that re-export symbols that they import from other, more implementation-dependent packages. SB-MOP and CLIM could be examples of this.
For example, CLIM:OUTPUT-STREAM-P is a symbol :IMPORTed-FROM #:CLIM-LISP in McCLIM. McCLIM imports it from COMMON-LISP. It is documented in the spec (http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/clim-spec/D-1.html#_1927), but the programmer can't complete it (even though it's there); This will lead to the programmer losing hair or to SLIME losing users.
OTOH, slime does complete symbols that are in a package that :USEs another, e.g. SB-MOP. This isn't all too consistent, IMHO.
Now there. Please undo this change (-:
Thanks,