>> > Yes, but if people get in the habit of using a new function
>> > whenever they don't actually want to use the match data,
>> > which I expect is most of the time, that need to think carefully
>> > will be much less frequent.
>>
>> I think this is a delusion.
>>
>>We will have to agree to disagree.
>>
>>Would someone please implement string-match-p and looking-at-p?
>>(A variable would be more general, but not as simple to use.
>>Its only advantage over save-match-data would be a small speedup.)
>
> Is there somebody working on it? If not, I would like to start it.
Do you want to work on a new variable? Since adding `-p' to only two
match functions doesn't make sense. And adding `-p' to all functions
makes even less sense.