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Re: :alnum: broken?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: :alnum: broken? |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:07:25 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:11 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> On 2/22/20 7:49 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Can we do something to report such errors?
>
> Yes, it would be easy to modify the Emacs regular expression parser to signal
> an
> error for patterns like [:alnum:]. GNU grep has been reporting these as
> errors
> ever since Paolo Bonzini changed it to do so in 2010, and it's been a win
> there.
> However, Eli's the Emacs maintainer and he has not yet been convinced to
> change
> GNU Emacs to be consistent with GNU grep.
AFAIU, Richard suggested to emit a warning from the byte compiler.
That might be a good-enough solution, better than signaling an error
at run time, IMO.
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