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Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data? |
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Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:34:46 +0900 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
David> Now the obvious solution to that would be to make
David> unsuccessful matches void the match-data, too. I myself
David> have no recollection of any discussions about this, but
David> Stephen Turnbull was pretty vocal about having proposed
David> something like this,
To be precise, I tried it in a workspace and was immediately slapped
down by a regression test failure.
David> What I'll do right now is just changing the condition that
David> it will not flag an error for greater-than-encountered
David> match-data indices, except for the case of completely void
David> match-data where I'll still flag an error.
I would suggest improving the error message if at all possible, and
documenting this prominently, as it is likely to happen very rarely,
and then only in asynchronous calls.
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- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, David Kastrup, 2004/06/11
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/12
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, David Kastrup, 2004/06/12
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/12
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/14
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, David Kastrup, 2004/06/14
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/14
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/16
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/18
- Re: Discrepancy in definition/use of match-data?, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/18