bug#46088: [External] : Re: bug#46088: 26.3; doc string of `read-regexp'

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If the behavior is too complicated to explain, what's the point?
  > That suggests a behavior/design bug, not just a doc bug.  Clearly
  > I can't judge that, because I don't understand what the behavior
  > is.

It wouldn't be bad to look for a possible cleaner design and document
it, but a redesign sometimes causes problems of its own.

Another option is to say that some aspects of its behavior are
unspecified.  That will be a lot less work, and can't break anything.

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