Re: Rationale for split-string?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jerry James <address@hidden>
> Date: 21 Apr 2003 23:09:31 -0500
> 
> It
> appears to me that Emacs 21.1 contained a version with the same behavior
> as XEmacs'; that is, it produced empty strings at the beginning and end
> in the cases of interest.  Emacs 21.4 contained the current version,
> that discards such empty strings.  So did anybody on the Emacs team
> worry about breaking existing code when 21.4 was released, nearly 4
> years ago?

There's some confusion (or maybe typos) here: Emacs 21.4 is not
released yet, certainly not 4 years ago.  The latest Emacs version is
21.3, released about 2 weeks ago.  Perhaps you got the versions wrong
or something.