GNU bug report logs - #12622
replace-regexp-in-string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 12622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#12622: replace-regexp-in-string
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:22:06 -0400

> Nonetheless consider it a design flaw, us it requires a argument taking
> function, where a expression just to evaluate would suffice.

You need some way to distinguish "here's an expression that will return
the string that needs to be passed as argument" from "here's the
expression that needs to be passed as argument, to be evaluated later in
each iteration of the loop".  The distinction is made by wrapping the
expression in a `lambda'.


        Stefan
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