Re: Saving match data

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:01:23 +0000
> 
> How about changing the statement to
> 
> "Notice that no functions are allowed to overwrite the match data unless 
> they're explicitly documented to do
> so."
> 
> and then clean up existing documentation and add `save-match-data' where 
> appropriate.

Can we really make such a promise and keep it?  I sincerely doubt
that.

What do others think?