On 19.11.2015 12:05, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korp...@aalto.fi>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:35:14 +0200 writes:
> 
>     > The NEWS for R-devel has the following item:
>     >> The previously included versions of zlib, bzip2, xz and PCRE have
>     >> been removed, so suitable external (usually system) versions are
>     >> required (see the ‘R Installation and Administration’ manual).
> 
>     > Therefore I believe the following information in
>     > 'src/library/base/man/regex.Rd' is no longer valid:
> 
>     >> If PCRE support was compiled from the sources within R, the PCRE
>     >> version is 8.36 as described here.
> 
> Not quite.  It is still *valid* : every statement about the
> elements of the empty set are true, in the same sense that
> 
>    if (FALSE)
>      "something or other"
> 
> is never invalid, but of course, that information should still
> be removed because indeed, it is empty.
> 
> Thank you Mikko!
>                 (and excuse the completely unnecessary pickyness ;-)

Thanks, I see that you already edited the .Rd file. Furthermore, I
accept your pickiness ;-)

- Mikko

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