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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: 43598@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#43598: replace-in-string: finishing touches
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:52:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77CD28C7-77C0-4DED-ACD0-21418489BADE@acm.org> (raw)

The new replace-in-string function is welcome but needs a few tweaks before we can call it done:

1. It doesn't quite work correctly with raw bytes:

  (replace-in-string "\377" "x" "a\377b")
  => "axb"
  (replace-in-string "\377" "x" "a\377ø")
  => "a\377ø"

The easiest solution is to reimplement it in terms of replace-regexp-in-string for now, and optimise it later (although I feel a bit bad undoing Lars's pretty handiwork...)

We have messy semantics here, because string-equal does not equate "\377" and (string-to-multibyte "\377"), but string-match-p does...

2. It is documented always to return a new string, but that's a tad over-generous nowadays; very few string functions do that. If we drop that guarantee, we get some optimisation opportunities:

- it can return the input string itself if no matches were found (a fairly common case)
- it can be marked pure, not just side-effect-free, so that the byte compiler can constant-propagate through calls to it

3. The name is somewhat unfortunate since a function by that name in XEmacs uses regexp matching.
In fact, the new function probably broke prolog-mode because of that (see prolog-replace-in-string).
While we can fix prolog-mode, we can't easily fix code outside the Emacs tree that may have similar problems.

Perhaps we should rename it to string-replace, in line with the modern naming convention discussed some time ago.






             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-24 20:52 Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-09-24 21:12 ` bug#43598: replace-in-string: finishing touches Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-24 21:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-24 23:18   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25  9:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 10:09       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-24 23:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 10:42   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-25 11:11     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:22       ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-25 11:32         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27  0:03         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27  0:34           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27  8:45             ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-28  3:41             ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28  9:40               ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-29  3:29                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29  4:12                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 11:12           ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-27 11:48             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 11:57               ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-27 12:02                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 16:14                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-27 16:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 16:41                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 16:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 22:44     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-26 22:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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