From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:29:49 +0900 Message-ID: <87393tj6ki.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <651F6603-F798-4381-929E-7D86A28DBC4D@gmail.com> <502464D6.4000103@gmail.com> <87wr1749m0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r4rehd19.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r4rd7koe.fsf@paduch.telenet.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344731404 6253 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2012 00:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Vr Rm , Stefan Monnier , Emacs development discussions To: Dmitri Paduchikh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 12 02:30:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T0M49-00024k-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T0M49-0005Fq-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T0M46-0005FZ-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T0M44-0004fu-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:51282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T0M44-0004fY-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218D0970885; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:29:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB5E011F88A; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:29:49 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87r4rd7koe.fsf@paduch.telenet.ru> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" b4715fcbe001 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152445 Archived-At: Dmitri Paduchikh writes: > I like the Lua way of solving this problem. So write a Lua-macs. This is not a good idea for mainline Emacs, for backward compatibility reasons. > They use different characters for string and regexp escaping (\ and > % correspondingly). Definitely % is inappropriate, since it's used for string formatting, and I've seen many applications of regexps that use regexps built with `format'. Talk about huge opportunities for confusion!