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!
next prev 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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