Re: trunk r117396: Do not allow out-of-range character position in Fcompare_strings.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/25/2014 06:57 PM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:

> May be I just misunderstood the development/release process as a whole,
> but what "it's too late" means for the trunk?

Too late to changes APIs that have been in use for a long time, I suppose.

> > We don't have the behavior for aref, but we do have it for nth and
> > gethash and people frequently rely on this behavior.
>
> Hm...lists are mutable - you can concatenate A and B (with setcdr)
> and get changed A but not the copy of A + B. On the other side, I always
> consider strings and vectors as "less mutable", which implies more strict
> checking (as with aref and aset).

To avoid rehashing the same argument, here's the previous discussion: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-07/msg00313.html

> I can check other external packages as well. Emacspeak?

You can look here, too: 
https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&q=compare-strings&ref=cmdform&type=Code