Subject: Re: bug#32372: [PATCH] Add "uuid" to thing-at-point.el

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:47:59 +0300

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:

> Raimon Grau <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> +;; UUID
>> +
>> +(defvar thing-at-point-uuid-regexp
>> +  (rx (and bow
>
> Using rx is okay, I think.  There was some discussion about it on
> emacs-devel a little time ago, with most people saying the increased
> verbosity made them not want to use it, but I kind of like it myself.
> However, Stefan made the point that `and' is potentially a bit
> confusing, because it could be misread as intersection.  It's better to
> use one of the synonyms `seq' or `:'.

FWIW, the outer and/seq/: can be eliminated, as rx implicitly sequences
its arguments.

-- 
Basil