From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: next steps. Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:15:18 +0200 Message-ID: <831s6p2qq1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20181210180033.GC4188@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544465674 28517 195.159.176.226 (10 Dec 2018 18:14:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 19:14:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ4X-0007Cp-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:14:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ6d-00081q-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57969) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ5g-00080d-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ5b-0003Z7-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ5b-0003Z1-Rw; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4601 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gWQ5b-00075y-D4; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:15:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <20181210180033.GC4188@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:00:33 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231742 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:00:33 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > Following an idea from Paul, I propose to build an alternative byte-code > interpreter alongside the primary one. This second interpreter would > regard symbols with position as being EQ to the corresponding bare > symbols, just as the branch currently does when symbols-with-pos-enabled > is bound to non-nil. I don't think I understood when will this alternative interpreter be used, and when will the "primary" one be used. Can you elaborate on that? Thanks.