Re: Can we add a delete-match function to subr(-x).el?

[Stefan Monnier]

>       (when (consp (match-data))

This allocates N cons cells just to test if there's something and in
practice there's basically *always* something (the match data keeps
info about the last successful match, so even if your last match was
a failure, `match-data` won't be nil]).


        Stefan