Re: [Patch] hard-widen-limits [was Re: Syntax tables for multiple modes [was: bug#22983: syntax-ppss returns wrong result.]]

[Stefan Monnier]

> Why to bother with call-with-hard-narrowing and not have all the logic
> in with-hard-narrowing directly? I looks to me that it's better to
> expose hard narrowing to elisp only. If possible it should be
> transparent to low level code.

The macro-expanded code will be written into the .elc files which people
will expect will work in the future without having to recompile.

So any API used by the macro-expanded code ends up being sufficiently
exposed that we can't easily get rid of it.


        Stefan