Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 17. Juni 2017 um
16:02 Uhr:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Sa., 17. Juni 2017
> um 15:53 Uhr:
>
>> > +            (when (or (function-get function 'pure)
>> > +                      (function-get function 'side-effect-free))
>> > +              (insert "\nThis function does not change the match
>> data."))
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more useful to say it doesn't have side-effects (which
>> would obviously imply it doesn't change the match-data, along with all
>> other global state)?
>>
>>
> I'd prefer to mention the match data explicitly, because users might not
> be aware that they are part of the global state. Maybe something like "This
> function does not (access|change) global state, including the match data"
> (where "access" can be used for the pure ones).
>

Given there were no more comments, I've pushed the patch (with the changed
wording) to master as f4995e7d36.