Re: :alnum: broken?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Indeed, the byte compiler cannot, which is why issuing a warning is
> appropriate.  Experience shows that we do pay attention to warnings
> and try to have our sources compile warning-free.

The less experienced users, which are those who fall the most on the
trap (me raises hand) hardly would benefit from a compiler warning. We
use regexps on interactive *-regexp commands, not on Elisp code that we
later compile. That's package writers.