Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Fr., 16. Juni 2017 um
21:53 Uhr:

> >> > I think this statement is surprising
> >> Agreed.  That's why we have to write it explicitly in the doc ;-)
> > Could we also write it in the docstrings of the match-related functions
> > (match-beginning etc.)? I guess people are more likely to read those than
> > the manual.
>
> That might work, yes (tho in my experience, Elisp coder don't read
> docstrings nearly as much as I would have expected).
>

I guess a reasonable expectation is that nobody ever reads documentation.
Therefore systems should do the right thing when used in the most obvious
way.