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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regular expressions that match nothing
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 11:12:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftpefevf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a6b23f52418b093a4cf7a6db4306cf425533249.camel@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Wed, 15 May 2019 18:21:07 +0200")

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> tis 2019-05-14 klockan 15:41 -0400 skrev Stefan Monnier:
>
>> Yes, please.  I'd recommend a `regexp-` prefix for it.
>
> Well, since you asked so nicely!
>
>> [ And I'll carefully avoid having an opinion on the rest of the name.
>> ]
>
> The correct name is obviously something like `regexp-empty', but I have
> to concede that it might be misinterpreted. The attached patch uses
> `regexp-unmatchable' which is reasonably descriptive. Better
> suggestions are welcome.

regexp-null? It's also a little cryptic, but it's short!



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-14  7:25 regular expressions that match nothing philippe schnoebelen
2019-05-14 10:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-14 19:41   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-15 16:21     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-15 19:41       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-16 10:54         ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-16 23:18           ` Phil Sainty
2019-05-17  9:43             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-17 10:17               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-17 12:53               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-15 20:17       ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-15 21:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-15 21:07         ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-15 21:38           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-16  6:57           ` More re odditie [Was: regular expressions that match nothing] phs
2019-05-16  9:29             ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-16 10:59               ` phs
2019-05-16 12:31                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-16 18:35             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-16 20:31               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-16 21:01                 ` Global and local definitions of non-functions/variable (was: More re odditie [Was: regular expressions that match nothing]) Stefan Monnier
2019-05-20 16:26           ` Bootstrap/autoload policy (was Re: regular expressions that match nothing) Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-22 14:02             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 14:07               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-22 14:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 15:06                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-22 15:53                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 16:40                       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-22 19:08                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-26 12:05                         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-16 18:12       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-05-19  4:30         ` 回复: regular expressions that match nothing net june
2019-05-19  5:00           ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-05-19  7:32             ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-05-20  7:56               ` philippe schnoebelen
2019-05-20 23:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-19 14:12           ` 回复: " Drew Adams

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