From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu, lektu@terra.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-match-data woes
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:08:08 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202280408.g1S488o19225@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020227120012.21923D-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:33 +0200 (IST))
That's true for application code, but what about functions that
implement core functionality? The latter can be run from unusual
places, like all kinds of hooks we have around, in which case it
should preserve the match data, right?
Some functions have the spirit of a general-purpose facility. People
will expect those functions to be "clean"--in various ways, so we need
to make them so. But it is not worth making all functions be "clean"
like that, and people won't expect it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-28 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-21 11:36 save-match-data woes Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-21 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-22 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-23 5:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-25 8:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-25 8:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-25 10:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-26 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-27 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-28 4:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-02-26 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
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