From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obsolete code in sregex.el Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:04:12 -0400 Message-ID: <877jh7myel.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118063254 12652 80.91.229.2 (6 Jun 2005 13:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bob Glickstein , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 06 15:07:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfHJi-0008FI-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfHQ2-0005tc-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfHOW-000532-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfHOP-0004z9-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfHOM-0004nk-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DfHKF-0004K3-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.116.59]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050606130417.YCRX26128.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE841D7339; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:01:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38171 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38171 > I noticed the following declarations in sregex.el. But I don't see > any references to them, so maybe they can be deleted? As the comment indicates this is compatibility code to interact with code that used sregex before we introduced shy-groups. There is no such code in Emacs. There may not be any such code in the rest of the world either, but I'm not in a position to assess it, My gut feeling is that it's indeed safe to throw it away. Stefan