GNU bug report logs - #50136
28.0.50; A problem with rx-let expansion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 50136-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 50136-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: 28.0.50; A problem with rx-let expansion
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:05:26 +0200

23 aug. 2021 kl. 18.59 skrev Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>:

> Maybe at least one sentence about that this mechanism just performs
> trivial substitution?

I didn't do that now, because I couldn't see how it could be interpreted otherwise (and there's the manual link).

> I find the term "user-defined" distracting, because anybody (including
> library and package developers) is "affected".  Apart from that, ok for
> me.

Thank you, changed.

> Didn't try the example, but it looks good.

Thanks for looking at it. Good examples are always hard to write!

> | (eval EXPR)    Match the rx sexp from evaluating EXPR at compile time.
> 
> can we say "expansion time" instead of "compile time"?

We can, and now do!

Closing; I think we're done here (complain if not).
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