Re: Upstreaming org-element-ast (was: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net> writes:

>> Or maybe the library can somehow flag to org-element-ast during compile
>> time about the properties to be optimized.
>
> What about asking library users to say something like
>
> (eval-when-compile (defvar org-element-custom-standard-properties ...))
>
> and then using a with-standard-properties macro within
> org-element-ast.el to make use of this value at compile time?
>
> I don't know if that would work if e.g. org-element-ast gets compiled
> before the user's code, but an interface like that seems preferable to
> me.

It will not work.
I thought about multiple ways to make things work, but everything seems
ugly or confusing as an API.

I think that the simplest approach could be just leaving
`org-element--standard-properties' constant, but stuffing it with truly
generic properties that are common for all the possible parsers.

WDYT?

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