Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data

[Richard Stallman]

    > I think all of those are misleading.
    >
    > "string-match-reentrant"?

    What use is reentrancy in a routine that does not call Lisp and can't
    be called in interrupts?

The question need not be answered.  We want a meaningful and clear way
to distinguish this function from `string-match'.  The fact that it is
reentrant is a good way to distinguish.  The name looks good.

    Anyway, such a function should likely _return_ the corresponding
    match-data (rather than setting a global variable to it), and things
    like match-beginning should optionally take an argument for this
    particular match-data.

That is a good idea.  If there is no match, it returns nil; if there
is a match, it returns the match data.