From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removal of syntax-ppss-last Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:04:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20171002170444.GA18364@ACM> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506964432 11347 195.159.176.226 (2 Oct 2017 17:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:13:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Cc: Dmitry Gutov To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 02 19:13:47 2017 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 1dz4Hq-0002L6-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:13:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz4Hx-0003jv-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz4Hp-0003j8-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz4Hm-0002y5-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ocolin.muc.de ([193.149.48.4]:52034 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz4Hl-0002wS-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 31144 invoked by uid 3782); 2 Oct 2017 17:13:37 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C685B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.104.91]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 18416 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Oct 2017 17:04:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.4 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:219017 Archived-At: 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, > -- > John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F > http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2 -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).