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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:27:58PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

> I wouldn't worry about that: unless they pay extra care to flush the
> cache manually, they currently sometimes get one behavior
> sometimes another, so they're already broken.

They're not broken, not of themselves.  Would you agree that because
syntax-ppss doesn't always return the defined value according to its
spec, we should move away from using it?

>         Stefan

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