From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.design Subject: Re: Rationale for split-string? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:15:47 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3099-Tue22Apr2003101547+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <87brz57at2.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304171744.h3HHiJCx009215@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87adem27ey.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ist8yv4n.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304212111.h3LLBLK11879@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <20030421234347.GA12507@gnu.org> <200304220326.h3M3Q1912252@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050995941 13695 80.91.224.249 (22 Apr 2003 07:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 09:18:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197s3P-0003Ye-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197s8Y-0004wD-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:24:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197s3o-0000gq-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197s3X-0000gN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197s3W-0000fj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197s3V-0000fM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (cable-131-74.inter.net.il [213.8.131.74]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AML88311; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:18:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: james@xemacs.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Jerry James on 21 Apr 2003 23:09:31 -0500) Original-cc: xemacs-design@xemacs.org Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13343 gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:2092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13343 > From: Jerry James > Date: 21 Apr 2003 23:09:31 -0500 > > It > appears to me that Emacs 21.1 contained a version with the same behavior > as XEmacs'; that is, it produced empty strings at the beginning and end > in the cases of interest. Emacs 21.4 contained the current version, > that discards such empty strings. So did anybody on the Emacs team > worry about breaking existing code when 21.4 was released, nearly 4 > years ago? There's some confusion (or maybe typos) here: Emacs 21.4 is not released yet, certainly not 4 years ago. The latest Emacs version is 21.3, released about 2 weeks ago. Perhaps you got the versions wrong or something.