From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: 13207@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13207: lisp-mnt.el improvements
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:29:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtxrk1767.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738z42vel.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:58:26 +0100")
> Okay. On second though: it wouldn't be very useful to use the match
> data set by these functions. Why not save the match-data here once so
> that no caller has to ever worry about it? Is there a general policy
> that this kinda thing shouldn't be done?
Yes, the general policy is: all functions should be presumed to trash
the match-data, except for a very few exceptions.
> The 3500 packages from which I extracted metadata include all built-in
> and fsf-elpa packages (though I did not process every library, just the
> "main library" of each package). The three packages affected in a
> negative way didn't do things right, and they aren't fsf packages.
OK, thanks for checking. It sounds good then. Can you send a "final" patch?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-18 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-17 16:26 bug#13207: lisp-mnt.el improvements Jonas Bernoulli
2012-12-17 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 21:58 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2012-12-18 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-19 15:38 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2012-12-19 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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