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Support (rx (and (regexp EXPR) (regexp-quote EXPR)))

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 36237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#36237: Support (rx (and (regexp EXPR) (regexp-quote EXPR)))
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:34:52 -0400

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Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:

> The function-complete ry has been put at
> https://gitlab.com/mattiase/ry for the time being. It should now be
> entirely compatible, including support for `rx-constituents'. Your
> proposed `literal' was also added, which was instructive; I needed to
> know how it would fit in.

Cool, I'll take a look.

> Noam, unless the consensus is that ry is unequivocally as good or
> better than rx, you could just as well apply your patch (suitably
> fixed up). Even if later replaced, there is nothing fundamentally
> wrong with the design; let's not hold it hostage.

Sure.  Here's the patch with regexp-quote change to literal, and
rx--compile-to-lisp renamed.  I'll wait a bit more and push this weekend
if there are no more comments.

[0001-Support-rx-and-regexp-EXPR-literal-EXPR-Bug-36237.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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