Re: JIT stealth font-lock tuning parameters

[Richard Stallman]

    > It could return some special value which the caller could check for.

    OK, so syntax-ppss should check for that value.  What should it do with it ?

syntax-ppss should probably return that special value too.
The jit-lock code, which would have bound the flag to ask
parse-partial-sexp to check for input, would notice this special
value and give up.