Stefan Monnier schrieb am Fr., 16. Juni 2017 um 21:53 Uhr: > > >> Indeed, there's also an expectation that "primitives" don't touch the > >> match-data. It would be good to document it, tho it will take some work > >> to clarify what is meant by "primitive". > > At least all functions that are side-effect-free or pure (in the sense of > > byte-opt) are trivially in this category, so we could amend the help > texts > > of these functions automatically. > > Indeed. > > That's at least easy enough to do (patch attached).