Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 26 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Troy Hinckley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> A regexp object read syntax is a possibility, but it's orthogonal to
> whether to have an object at all.

If you want to byte-compile a form that contains a regexp object, a
proper read syntax is required.

The object types without read syntax are rather ephemeral, unlikely to
occur in byte-compiled forms.

Andreas.

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