bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT).

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> parse-partial-sexp doesn't work on a region.  It works with a starting
> position and ending position, which are not interchangeable.

Well...  they are interchangeable now, as they are in many functions in
Emacs.

> It's obvious to me that Emacs should throw an error in these
> circumstances.  You seem to be disagreeing, or at least to be unsure.

Making this signal an error wouldn't be backwards-compatible, so I think
that's a no go.

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