Re: Permission requested to merge branch comment-cache into master.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Clément.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 03/13/2016 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > What I predict is now going to happen is that a different function,
> > based on syntax-ppss, but returning the equivalent of
> > (parse-partial-sexp 1 pos) is going to get written.  I also predict that
> > it will be given the name syntax-ppss, and the 200 or so calls in our
> > code, and an indeterminate number in users' code are going to be left as
> > they are to fend for themselves, regardless of the change in
> > functionality.

> I suggested that in an earlier message, ....

You did indeed.

> ..... but I don't think you responded :/
> Do you think it would break anything?

Yes, I do.  With ~200 calls to the function, some of them are going to
depend on it doing precisely what the specification says.  Possibly not
very many, but some will.

> Clément.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).