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syntax-ppss returns wrong result.

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 22983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22983: syntax-ppss returns wrong result.
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:58:43 -0700

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>>>>> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> The aforementioned patch both fixes the bug and allows syntax-ppss to
> continue to be used in the fashion I've mentioned previously.

> The question that's holding it, as far as I'm concerned, if whether the
> "hard narrowing" discussion reaches a satisfying conclusion. If it does, we
> won't really need syntax-ppss-dont-widen.

Have things reached a satisfactory conclusion now?  It was hard for me to tell
by the end of this thread.

> I've never said anything about avoiding making changes to it. But when we do
> that, we usually try to accommodate the existing uses (the importance of
> which depends on how many uses there are out there).

Sure, though it's experimental nature does get taken into account. If a thing
is wrong, I'm not interested in accommodating existing workarounds to its
wrongness.

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