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27.0.50; [PATCH] rx.el: Fix misplaced "char" identifiers.

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From: Zhu Zihao <all_but_last <at> 163.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 38170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Zhu Zihao <all_but_last <at> 163.com>
Subject: bug#38170: 27.0.50; [PATCH] rx.el: Fix misplaced "char" identifiers.
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:54:58 +0800

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:37:09 +0800,
Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the report! However, there may be a misunderstanding:
> 
> (char ...) as an alias for (any ...) was a documented feature of the old implementation and was therefore preserved in the re-write; it cannot be removed without a very good justification.
> 
> 'char' as an alias for 'not-newline' was never documented in the first place and because of the rather intuitive meaning, it was considered to be an implementation accident and therefore not included.
> 
> Therefore I'd rather not apply the proposed changes.

Thanks for your explanation. I' m going to adjust my code instead :)

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