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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 20307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20307: [PATCH] make regexp-opt return a no-match return value with empty input
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:37:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sxxh2pl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9995071F-D58F-4D84-958B-58D3DA5F6F20@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:57:44 +0100)

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:57:44 +0100
> 
> +If STRINGS is empty, the return value is a regexp that never
> +matches anything.

This says "empty", but the actual test will catch nil as well as an
empty list.  Should we perhaps mention that?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-02 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-12  9:50 bug#20307: 25.0.50; (regexp-opt nil ...) returns "" David Kastrup
2015-04-12 12:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-13 14:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-13 15:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-13 15:34   ` David Kastrup
2015-04-13 15:59     ` Artur Malabarba
2019-02-25 14:57 ` bug#20307: [PATCH] make regexp-opt return a no-match return value with empty input Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-02 12:37   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-02 14:21     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-02 14:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-02 14:49         ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-02 14:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-02 15:24             ` Mattias Engdegård

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