From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: trunk r117396: Do not allow out-of-range character position in Fcompare_strings.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:19:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AAF6AF.5070907@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AAF174.40002@yandex.ru>
On 06/25/2014 06:57 PM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> May be I just misunderstood the development/release process as a whole,
> but what "it's too late" means for the trunk?
Too late to changes APIs that have been in use for a long time, I suppose.
>> We don't have the behavior for aref, but we do have it for nth and
>> gethash and people frequently rely on this behavior.
>
> Hm...lists are mutable - you can concatenate A and B (with setcdr)
> and get changed A but not the copy of A + B. On the other side, I always
> consider strings and vectors as "less mutable", which implies more strict
> checking (as with aref and aset).
To avoid rehashing the same argument, here's the previous discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-07/msg00313.html
> I can check other external packages as well. Emacspeak?
You can look here, too:
https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&q=compare-strings&ref=cmdform&type=Code
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2014-06-25 13:22 ` trunk r117396: Do not allow out-of-range character position in Fcompare_strings Dmitry
2014-06-25 13:46 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-25 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 15:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-25 16:19 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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