Re: master 45a1653: ; Fix last change to bibtex.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> The problem is really about allowing user-defined functions.  If one
> excludes user-defined functions and allows only predefined
> functions, the entire 'funcall ...-function' thing is not needed,
> that is, the variable can hold a symbol that triggers a hard-coded call
> of a predefined function.

I don't understand the "the entire ...".  AFAICT the replacement would
be bigger.  So the use of (funcall ...-function) is really a way to make
the code simpler, and it just happens to come with the side benefit of
being also more flexible.

And indeed with the :safe keyword you can specify a number of value that
can be assumed to be safe, while any other value will be raise alarms.


        Stefan