Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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If we add a regexp type, we would need to add several primitive
functions.  I estimate it would make the Emacs Lisp reference Manual
10 pages longer.  We would need a read syntax for them too.

Let's choose a solution which does not add a new data type.

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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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