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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7217: 24.0.50; no doc strings for regexp-opt functions
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:05:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvd53442f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52B72F87C25E4A2B98421CCC7E7718E4@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:24:36 -0700")

> emacs -Q
> Please provide doc strings for the so-called "workhorse" regexp-opt
> functions.  They are important enough for users that I see them used in
> 3rd-party libraries.
 
>  regexp-opt-group
>  regexp-opt-charset

Maybe regexp-opt-charset makes sense in 3rd party libraries (the same
functionality is also re-implemented in rx.el and sregex.el, IIRC), but
I can't think of any reason to use regexp-opt-group.

So I agree for regexp-opt-charset and would also like to see it used in
rx.el and friends,


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 15:24 bug#7217: 24.0.50; no doc strings for regexp-opt functions Drew Adams
2010-10-15 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-10-15 20:31   ` Drew Adams
2010-10-17 19:01     ` Stefan Monnier

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