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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu, lektu@terra.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-match-data woes
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:33 +0200 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020227120012.21923D-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202262015.g1QKF5s16869@aztec.santafe.edu>


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     My experience is quite different: the match data is in 99% of the cases
>     used right after a call to a regexp-match function, with almost no
>     other functions called inbetween apart from some very primitive ones.
> 
> That is my experience too.

That's true for application code, but what about functions that
implement core functionality?  The latter can be run from unusual
places, like all kinds of hooks we have around, in which case it
should preserve the match data, right?

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-21 11:36 save-match-data woes Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-21 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-22 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-23  5:26   ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-25  8:10   ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-25  8:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-25 10:19       ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-02-26 20:15       ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-27 10:00         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-02-28  4:08           ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-26 20:14     ` Richard Stallman

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