Re: Why does save-match-data do what it does?

[Robert Pluim]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> save-match-data works by assigning the current match data to a temporary
> variable, doing its stuff and restoring it again.  Why not this?
>
> (defmacro save-match-data-icmd (&rest body)
>   "An alternative definition of `save-match-data'."
>   (declare (indent 0) (debug t))
>   `(let ((inhibit-changing-match-data t))
>      ,@body))

What if body want to use match data?

Robert