Subject: bug#79192: json parsing error position reform

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:17:44 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 17:43:26 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> 7 aug. 2025 kl. 17.36 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> 
> > If we have the position, can we have the cake and eat it, too?  Would
> > it be possible to call some function in the case of an error that
> > would calculate the line and column from the position, and include
> > that in the error data?  That way, the performance will suffer only
> > when there is an error to report.
> 
> It would be completely useless busy-work in practice. Even if disabled by default, it's programming work done for something that makes nobody happy. Let's put our effort where it counts instead.

Sorry, I don't follow.  How is providing helpful data about the locus
of an error "useless"?