From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6985: rx patterns don't compose Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:42:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4C8349E4.10901@gmail.com> References: <4C82D84D.7040205@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283686597 1354 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 11:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6985@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 13:36:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDWO-0004Zp-RO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsDSR-0004ZO-FS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=P2oTemZQqsRrjAhBbn9OkP2DgrFBZV17ygRAuT8NgVtBUlOLg5TP1I6oyzsz5WV8cN nD/CNzRyuacJYllad/esP6qDJf+KYOCr+TcnOpr/NYG1uU2bHptMso9QwR0ZVRyn4JcQ foUcuWBUtRC8krUYfpEbYwnNsUsr6g0vXOWL8= Original-Received: by 10.114.60.9 with SMTP id i9mr1880604waa.19.1283672551371; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from edith.hsd1.wa.comcast.net (c-67-183-23-114.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.183.23.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o17sm8135427wal.9.2010.09.05.00.42.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:42:30 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:41:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39987 Archived-At: On 9/5/10 12:39 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Daniel Colascione writes: > >> It's not possible to do this currently: >> >> (defconst foo-re (rx "abc")) >> (defconst bar-re (rx (* (what-goes-here? foo-re))) > > (defconst bar-re (eval `(rx (* (regexp ,foo-re)))) Or better yet, (defconst bar-re (rx-to-string `(* (regexp ,foo-re)))) But it's still cumbersome.