Re: [PATCH] Raw strings, from Python via SXEmacs

QUERY Diverting to xemacs-beta. Evidently SXEmacs has decided to adopt raw strings, so no point in discussing *there*. SXEmacs folks are more than welcome to present their opinions on what XEmacs should do, since you've probably already discussed some of the points I'm concerned about. This introduces a serious backward incompatibility with GNU Emacs and XEmacs 21.4, without adding functionality beyond an attractive convenience. There is a policy question here, and it should be discussed (including whether we should be more interested in compatibility with SXEmacs than GNU Emacs!) before committing IMO. I'm not going to veto (I like raw strings!), but please give it some time (a couple weeks, rather than the usual 48 hours) before you conclude that lack of discussion == tacit approval. Aidan> This patch integrates Martin Kuehl’s raw strings into Aidan> XEmacs 21.5, [In case anybody doesn't know what a raw string is, it's a reader representation of strings with no escape processing by the reader. Ie, "\n" does not become a newline internally, it stays as "\n". This is very convenient for regexps since you can embed a newline in the string with little effort, and the regexp "\\(a\\|b\\)" in a normal string becomes "\(a\|b\)" in a raw string.] -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.