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26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 26338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>,
 npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>,
 Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: RE: bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current
 buffer
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 00:29:35 +0900 (JST)

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Drew Adams wrote:


> Put all this stuff - and more - into an `eloop' macro.
> Since it will be so much better and more Emacsy, with
> specifics that are especially useful for Emacs, it is
> what users will (eventually) use instead of `cl-loop'.
>
> Since it will do everything that `cl-loop' does (and
> more), eventually only the rare user who needs, or for
> some reason really wants, code that is CL or close to
> it will use `cl-loop'.  Everyone else will use `eloop'.
> No problem.
I guess that might cause a lot of duplication of code.
IMO experts CL lispers will be more sad with this emulation
for the lack of returning multiple values than for the addition
of some extensions.  They can chose not to use them if they
don't like them.
Just one opinion too.

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