[debbugs-tracker] bug#13260: closed (24.3.50; save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and `delete-backward-char'?)

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and subject line Re: bug#13260: 24.3.50; save match data for core functions 
like `delete-char' and `delete-backward-char'?
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #13260,
regarding 24.3.50; save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and 
`delete-backward-char'?
to be marked as done.

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> 24.3.50; save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and	`delete-backward-char'?
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> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:18:05 +0100
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> `delete-char' and `delete-backward-char' modify the match data.
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> I know the policy is to let any function assume the match data
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> If so, I'll provide a patch.
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> Thanks!
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> Re: bug#13260: 24.3.50;	save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and	`delete-backward-char'?
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> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
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> > And in 99% of the cases where they do destroy the match-data, nobody
> > cares anyway, which is why we shouldn't always save-match-data.
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> Ps: I wasn't talking about /always/ saving the match data of course.
> Closing this report now.
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>  Bastien
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