From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: string-match bug? Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:13:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20091209181324.GB17507@tomas> References: <4B1D6773.3000509@easy-emacs.de> <4B1F5A38.1030703@easy-emacs.de> <4B1FDF51.1010002@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260382772 7832 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 18:19:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Matthew Dempsky Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 19:19:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NIR8H-0000F0-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:19:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIR8H-0004di-22 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIR7t-0004cM-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:19:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIR7n-0004Zl-Gt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42281 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIR7n-0004Zi-8b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:39391 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIR7m-0001he-7C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1FB0090049; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:13:24 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70532 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:07:56AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Andreas R=C3=B6hler > wrote: > > But simply by convention, isn't it? >=20 > No. It's because it's consistent and makes sense. That's why every > sane programming language does it this way: Ah, nice: our postings crossed :) But I think it_is_ a convention -- just the one which makes most sense. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLH+jEBcgs9XrR2kYRApjFAJ9llWu4/ms+EymRkIKO50SmfF8cVQCeIVIH 6RWS0RoHmC9aKYnNxYjJT1s=3D =3Du8dn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----