From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6985: rx patterns don't compose Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:37:49 -0700 Message-ID: <4C82D84D.7040205@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283643608 9910 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2010 23:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:40:08 +0000 (UTC) To: 6985@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 01:40:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Os2L7-0007El-BY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Os2L6-0004HO-Hq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IQr9bDProrfRb6I1g9vHdOxYHQuYCENQRlGrIoWUgs1aDhFuZuuPEeHXiYElq0qpwA QUkHFvfuwIw0OPfa8GXd6pgyUK/3swVDCGfMfqi8Rnl1GN/gj3qQWODsMZhWbM3rONLj PA9fytKV51ATdhw6julWttTZwKWSBhlAY76vg= Original-Received: by 10.114.74.7 with SMTP id w7mr1597573waa.3.1283643472513; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from edith.hsd1.wa.comcast.net (c-67-183-23-114.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.183.23.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c10sm7278727wam.13.2010.09.04.16.37.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:37:51 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:37:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39979 Archived-At: It's not possible to do this currently: (defconst foo-re (rx "abc")) (defconst bar-re (rx (* (what-goes-here? foo-re))) in any sensible way. This won't work (defconst bar-re (rx (* (regexp foo-re)))) because regexp always expects a string. This won't work, because eval always quotes its argument: (defconst bar-re (rx (* (eval foo-re)))) I propose allowing regexp to accept a symbol as well as a string, and using that symbol's value literally. Alternatively, rx could provide an eval-unquoted facility. Or both.