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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Global match data considered harmful
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:09:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6frqje2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveihjdaxj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > The rule for where to place a save-match-data is:
 > 
 >   around the code run between "looking-at" and
 >   "match-string-no-properties".

*snort*  I'm with Juanma.

This is just so wrong, you know.  Not returning the match data, instead
storing it in a global object, is arguably the worst design decision
in all of Emacs.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 13:58 which-function => DEFUN? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-10 14:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-10 14:39   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-10 15:09     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-10 15:56       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-10 17:30         ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-10 15:42   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-10 16:05     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-10 17:34       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-10 17:34     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-11  2:09     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-05-11 13:54       ` Global match data considered harmful Stefan Monnier
2010-05-12  2:01         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-12  5:09           ` tomas

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