Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

We don't need a read syntax for all new objects.  For instance, we have
no read syntax for

(window-frame) -> #<frame emacs 0x562a456cefb0>

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