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[PATCH] gnus-shorten-url: Improve and avoid args-out-of-range error

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Message #17 received at 39980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 39980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39980: [PATCH] gnus-shorten-url: Improve and avoid
 args-out-of-range error
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 19:12:51 +0100

On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 19:03:24 +0100
Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I don't know why it's become almost all substs and macros, but it
> seems odd to decide to make things that look like a perfectly good
> defun into a defsubst just because we're sticking it in subr-x.

Indeed, but the same could be said about all the other string functions
already in there, so I can't think of any other reason for them being
defsubsts than avoiding runtime loading of the library, and the
commentary seems to kinda imply that, too, doesn't it?

-- 
Štěpán

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