From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: :alnum: broken? Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:49:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86wo8flqct.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86sgj3ljf0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="72369"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 23 04:49:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j5iH4-000IlE-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 04:49:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49260 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j5iH3-0006oH-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:49:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54855) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j5iGU-0006Mu-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5iGU-0003jY-CB; Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1j5iGS-0000r6-Id; Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:49:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86sgj3ljf0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:28:19 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245036 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Can we do something to report such errors? For instance, the compiler could warn when it sees an argument that is a regexp which is a constant string with a character class containing two colons. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)