Re: Removal of syntax-ppss-last

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, John.

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:02:10 -0400, John Wiegley wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,

I'm not Dmitry, but I was involved in the making of this patch.

> In commit 827db6b559100153fd7dcab1ecdabd9233e906ab you removed the
> function syntax-ppss-last.

There doesn't seems to be a function of that name in Emacs 25.3.  Do you
mean the _variable_ syntax-ppss-last?

> There are version of haskell-mode in the wild (such as the one I'm
> using) which depend on this function. Is there a reason you had to
> remove it entirely, or was that just code cleanup?

It was mainly code cleanup, I think.

> I ask because this might break other people, so I want to ensure it's
> a needed removal.

syntax-ppss-last was intended as an internal variable in syntax.el.  Why
was haskell-mode using it?  (If indeed it was).

> Thanks,
> -- 
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