Re: Inefficient code in reftex-index.el

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> There is no other interface into the number of accessible match
>>> strings (which might be nil) rather than
>>> (/ (length (match-data t)) 2).
>
>>     That's still pretty inefficient -- I suggest that we introduce a new
>>     function `match-count' to return that number.
>
>> Is there sufficient use for this function to justify introducing it?
>> I think that most cases where this would be used, the code would
>> then proceed to call match-data.
>
> Actually the only cases I can vaguely remember using the
> (/ (length (match-data)) 2) idiom didn't use the whole (match-data).
> They typically used the idiom in order to know *which* subgroup matched (of
> course it only works if you craft your regexp carefully).

That would not work.  (length (match-data)) is a property of the
regexp, not the match.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum