From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Regexps and strings once again Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:26:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <541637C4.8050502@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410776846 10815 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 10:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 12:27:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTTV4-0000CG-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:27:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTTV1-0001ex-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTTUi-0001eW-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTTUc-0001AB-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42835 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTTUc-0001A3-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F71AD37; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:26:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: Leona, I want to CONFESS things to you.. I want to WRAP you in a SCARLET ROBE trimmed with POLYVINYL CHLORIDE.. I want to EMPTY your ASHTRAYS... In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:04:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174316 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > #r"This is (not )?a Perl regexp" > > for regexp literals. Quoting " characters would still be necessary, but > I don't think that's all that important. (And quoting quote chars is > less annoying than quoting slashes.) You don't need a new literal syntax for establishing an additional regexp syntax. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."