Re: mode-line-format - local variableness

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> There are reasonable choices for these questions, but no matter what you
> choose, you will sooner or later find a situation where it doesn't
> actually do what was intended, and furthermore, the implementation tends
> to be painful and costly, which is a bummer since it's supposed to be
> a *very* rare case that's fairly easy to avoid, yet you'll end up paying
> for it all the time.

... and any guarantees we make now may come back to haunt us if we want
to change the way the internal mechanisms work later.

-Miles

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