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> From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:07:28 +0200
> 
> These return THING as a substring of buffer, doing
> nothing else, whereas symbol-at-point interns existing
> THING unconditionally

And why is that bad, actually?