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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master da3e101: ; Try not to affect match data
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 20:35:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170909003529.GA1124@holos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4lsejbfj.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

On 07/09/17 at 08:16pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>     ; Try not to affect match data
>>     * lisp/xdg.el (xdg-user-dir): Use save-match-data.
>
>Why does it matter?  Given the general way we handle match-data,
>I think it's a bug for Elisp code to assume that something like
>xdg-user-dir won't affect the match data.

I guess it doesn't--I can take it out.

>PS: And I just saw that the code says
>
>   "Return the path of user directory referred to by NAME."
>
>   which is wrong since the GNU convention is to use "path" only for
>   lists of directories (as in $PATH, $MANPATH, load-path, ...), so it
>   should say something like "file name" or just "Return the directory
>   referred to by NAME"

OK, I'll reword it, thanks.



      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09  0:35 UTC|newest]

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2017-09-08  0:16   ` [Emacs-diffs] master da3e101: ; Try not to affect match data Stefan Monnier
2017-09-09  0:35     ` Mark Oteiza [this message]

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