Re: [nongnu] elpa/helm 07dacfe2e2 08/11: Prefer string-match-p over string-suffix-p

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  thievol@posteo.net
>> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:06:47 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I think this change is simply incorrect: the first argument of
>> > string-suffix-p is not interpreted as a regexp, but as a simple
>> > literal string (the implementation uses compare-strings internally).
>> 
>> But why is it incorrect?  `string-suffix-p' is passed a string, while
>> `string-match-p' takes a regular expression, that might be too liberal
>> but should still match everything the previous check did -- or am I
>> missing something?
>
> Why do the change when string-suffix-p already ensures there's nothing
> in the second argument after the suffix?

I don't know, that is what I wanted to ask Thierry.