Re: problem with fancy-split's ! operator; bug?

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

>> Colin Rafferty <URL:mailto:colin.rafferty@msdw.com>

0> In article <vgvn1phktct.fsf@ms.com>,
0> > wrote:

>> Toby Speight writes:
>>
>>>> Colin Rafferty <URL:mailto:colin@xemacs.org>
0> In article <vgvsnzanwqi.fsf@ms.com>,
0> > wrote:

>> Can you give an example of something that works with the former
>> code, that behaves differently in the latter?
>>
>> Just about anything.  Since the former code expects a list of
>> groups in which to put the mail, and the latter code expects a
>> split to parse, pretty much anything will owrk differently.

Did this used to work at one time?  I have old code which I don't use
any more, which looks like

dot-gnus> (defun tms-split-lists (list)
dot-gnus>   (goto-char (point-min))
dot-gnus>   (let (groups name)
dot-gnus>     (while (re-search-forward tms-list-regexp nil t)
dot-gnus>       (setq name (match-string 1))
dot-gnus>       (or (member name groups)
dot-gnus>           (setq groups (cons name groups))))
dot-gnus>     (cons '& groups)))

In particular, note that I put '& at the beginning of the list.  This
worked in 5.5 or 5.7, I think.