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Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

> So, even though `.*' appears to be much more intuitive, it is not
> really that intuitive if you don't happen to know what's going on
> behind the scenes, so I'd rather have a prefix that is clearly not
> part of the regexp.  It might have been better to use a (cons 'partial
> "regex") to denote partial matches...

Yes, that sounds like a better idea than a "magic" prefix.

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