(combine-and-quote-strings): Renamed from strings->string.

(split-string-and-unquote): Renamed from string->strings.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 84f216b0861..8de09b032f5 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -2760,11 +2760,10 @@ Modifies the match data; use `save-match-data' if necessary."
                     list)))
     (nreverse list)))
 
-;; (string->strings (strings->string X)) == X
-(defun strings->string (strings &optional separator)
+(defun combine-and-quote-strings (strings &optional separator)
   "Concatenate the STRINGS, adding the SEPARATOR (default \" \").
 This tries to quote the strings to avoid ambiguity such that
-  (string->strings (strings->string strs)) == strs
+  (split-string-and-unquote (combine-and-quote-strings strs)) == strs
 Only some SEPARATORs will work properly."
   (let ((sep (or separator " ")))
     (mapconcat
@@ -2774,20 +2773,20 @@ Only some SEPARATORs will work properly."
          str))
      strings sep)))
 
-;; (string->strings (strings->string X)) == X
-(defun string->strings (string &optional separator)
+(defun split-string-and-unquote (string &optional separator)
   "Split the STRING into a list of strings.
-It understands elisp style quoting within STRING such that
-  (string->strings (strings->string strs)) == strs
+It understands Emacs Lisp quoting within STRING, such that
+  (split-string-and-unquote (combine-and-quote-strings strs)) == strs
 The SEPARATOR regexp defaults to \"\\s-+\"."
   (let ((sep (or separator "\\s-+"))
         (i (string-match "[\"]" string)))
-    (if (null i) (split-string string sep t)    ; no quoting:  easy
+    (if (null i)
+        (split-string string sep t)     ; no quoting:  easy
       (append (unless (eq i 0) (split-string (substring string 0 i) sep t))
               (let ((rfs (read-from-string string i)))
                 (cons (car rfs)
-                      (string->strings (substring string (cdr rfs))
-                                           sep)))))))
+                      (split-string-and-unquote (substring string (cdr rfs))
+                                                sep)))))))
 
 
 ;;;; Replacement in strings.