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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: split-string behavior change
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:27:08 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18370.6508.301118.933654@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003c01c8774b$48ab7d70$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com>

 > IOW, we added an optional third arg, for which the non-nil value - not the
 > nil value, gives the same result as before. And using the same code as
 > before, with no third arg, now gives a different result (breaks).
 > 
 > That seems backward, to me. Why wasn't the polarity of the new OMIT-NULLS
 > arg reversed (and so called INCLUDE-NULLS)?
 >
 > If this change was a mistake, so be it. But if it was conscious decision and
 > not a mistake, then I'm curious to know the reason for it.

Have you looked at the archives or tried googling with split-string and
omit-nulls?

The latter gives me

http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.xemacs.design/2003-04/msg00142.html

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25  1:10 split-string behavior change Drew Adams
2008-02-25  1:27 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-02-25  2:00   ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25  2:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-25  2:26   ` Drew Adams

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