Re: save-match-data woes

[Eli Zaretskii]

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?