Re: Saving match data

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > Why don't we just let the programmer explicitly save the match data
> > (e.g. to a symbol) when he is interested in it (FWIW this is already
> > possible with `match-data' and `save-match-data').  That would be more
> > transparent and work around this kind of problem.
>
> AFAIU, that's exactly what we do now.

I notice I wrote `save-match-data' where I meant `set-match-data',
sorry.  `save-match-data' is the thing I would like to avoid: instead of
an implicit state that is altered as side effect, I want to make uses of
match data explicit e.g. by using a variable.


Michael.