Re: [patch] Re: UTF-8 and PCRE and metafy

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:35:29 -0400
Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At some point, there was a discussion about whether $MATCH/$match should
> be _unset_ when regex tests fail: at present we don't.  Did anyone have
> any strong opinions on this?  At the moment, I unset manually after each
> print of results, for a batch of simple tests I added.

I doubt anyone's dependent on which way this is written, it would be an
odd way to write code.  However, it's sort of semi-standard that if what
you were doing didn't work you don't touch the variables you would have
set.  Possible there are already cases where this isn't true.

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