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Re: Locations and mid-rule actions
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Locations and mid-rule actions |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:56:39 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden> writes:
> Now I see that the current behaviour can also be useful. Since the
> location of the mid-rule action will be a part of the final
> location, it seems reasonable to leave it empty.
Also, it is more consistent with the POSIX-required behavior that a
mid-rule action be (roughly) equivalent to an action on an empty rule.
Empty rules have empty locations, so....
> it might not hurt if the mid-rule action has a location that spans
> the previous symbols.
Why would that help? If a mid-rule action wants the location of a
previous symbol (say, symbol number 3 for that rule), can't it get it
with address@hidden'?