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bug#13207: lisp-mnt.el improvements
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#13207: lisp-mnt.el improvements |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:29:22 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Okay. On second though: it wouldn't be very useful to use the match
> data set by these functions. Why not save the match-data here once so
> that no caller has to ever worry about it? Is there a general policy
> that this kinda thing shouldn't be done?
Yes, the general policy is: all functions should be presumed to trash
the match-data, except for a very few exceptions.
> The 3500 packages from which I extracted metadata include all built-in
> and fsf-elpa packages (though I did not process every library, just the
> "main library" of each package). The three packages affected in a
> negative way didn't do things right, and they aren't fsf packages.
OK, thanks for checking. It sounds good then. Can you send a "final" patch?
Stefan