Re: Make regexp handling more regular

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> So my idle shower thought for the day is: Is there any reasonable path
>> forward that the Emacs Lisp language could take here?
>
> Currently the match data is like a dynamically bound variable accessible
> to the callee.  But maybe the match data should be only lexically-bound?
> (This is just a vague idea, I don't know how to implement this.)

Yes, I wondered whether one could use some lexical magic here, but I
didn't quite see what that would look like.

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