Re: Emacs regexp scan (Sep 29)

[Stefan Monnier]

> In general, I'd rather we didn't flag valid constructs if we can, as
> doing that is an annoyance for programmers.  In particular, I find
> nothing wrong with "*.^", and I find "\\*.\\^" harder to read.

It's more error prone, e.g. if you later concat some prefix to the regexp.


        Stefan