Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Troy Hinckley]

I don’t think you could have a regexp object without a read syntax. Reading a 
regexp is such a common operation, where as reading a frame has limited 
usefulness. 

- Troy Hinckley

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 5:39 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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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