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Re: Matching programming language identifiers, not "words"


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Matching programming language identifiers, not "words"
Date: 19 May 2004 12:29:40 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> This part seems suspect - I don't think the fall-through from wordend to
> symbeg is intentional.

Indeed, that was a bug.

> perhaps a new term should be introduced for word+symbol - otherwise the
> last part of this paragraph would probably have to read "... if a word- or
> symbol-constituent character follows" to be unambiguous.  The same goes
> for the \_> doc.

I think we should distinguish betwen the idea of a character that is "symbol
constituent" and a character that has "symbol syntax".


        Stefan




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