GNU bug report logs - #15912
Improve API of recently-added bool vector functions.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, bug-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improve API of recently-added bool vector functions.
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:28:09 -0800
Thanks!

On 11/17/2013 12:17 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
>
>> I ... dislike count-leading as a name: it suggests that the function
>> is useful only at the beginning of a vector. How about count-consecutive?
>
> Sounds good.  Revised patch attached.
>
>> bool-vector-count-matches is supposed to be evocative to CL's
>> count-matches, which has a similar interface.
>
> I can't find 'count-matches' in the online documentation for CL, here:

I was mistaken. (Note the original message timestamp.) Sorry about 
sending you on a wild goose chase through CLTL --- the revised patch is 
fine.





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