From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: custom type `color' is not enforced
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:27:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4769C4E9.20800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J59fX-0000Jg-SN@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> I agree that these changes would be improvements. However, I don't
> think we have any way to test the validity of a regexp without
> matching it, and matching it (even against a null string) could
> cause an infinite loop.
The widget library already validates
:type 'regexp
with the function (defun widget-regexp-validate (widget) ... ) which
does (string-match regexp "").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAELMEBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
2007-12-18 23:00 ` custom type `color' is not enforced Drew Adams
2007-12-20 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 1:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-12-21 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-20 19:27 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-21 6:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-21 6:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 9:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-22 6:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 20:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-23 10:54 ` Per Abrahamsen
2007-12-23 12:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-25 13:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
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