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From: | Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: | Re: Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification |
Date: | Tue, 09 May 2017 16:05:05 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> writes: > > I'm curious what could be reasons not to fix this (in the code). > > Because split-string is used all over the place in Emacs and we'd have > to check that the fix is not breaking some code somewhere in ways that > we can't always guess? I see. OTOH we would probably also fix a lot of use cases that were broken until now, unrecognized, in subtle ways. Also in code outside of the Emacs repository. > > Allowing only a subset of possible regexps would be quite strange. > > Not if you document the strangeness. Per definitionem. In the long term, it might still be less work to fix it. Michael.
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