Re: Text property searching

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Lars.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 21:16:37 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> > If you fail to do this, people will curse you.  The functions, instead
> > of being correct, will merely be functions which sort-of work most of
> > the time.  And the correct advice given to hackers wishing to write
> > correct programs would be to avoid the new functions altogether and use
> > the currently existing text property searching functions instead.

> But as the experiment shows, the new function (dis)regards the same
> subset of things (i.e., nil and the absence of a value) as the old
> functions.  So that doesn't seem likely to happen.

Why did you distort my message by snipping essential context?

The "this" I was talking about was the correct handling of category
properties in the new functions, not the distinction between an absent
property and a value of nil.

Let me put it to you again: you need to deal with category text
properties properly.  If you don't, the things I listed in the paragraph
above will surely happen.

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).