Subject: RE: bug#8667: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' returns (N . N) for `comment'

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:28:25 -0700

> > Also, who really cares what the original intention was in this case
> > (what "the funciton wants" to do), since it is not even used (in the
> > Emacs sources)?
> 
> Agreed.  To my eyes, the best fix is to throw it away.

I disagree, but don't really care (someone can always add it to external code).
For thing-at-point (bounds-of*, in particular) it can be useful.