On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:12 AM Noam Postavsky <
address@hidden> wrote:
> This sort of complication needs to be kept in check. But thanks, Lars,
> for actually having the consideration to ask here first.
Huh. I'm constantly annoyed at the (nth 8 state) thing, because I can
never remember which number is which. In fact, I had meant to propose
some accessors in Bug#32504. It didn't actually occur to me that this
might be at all controversial, the only reason that bug sat for a
while is that I got busy with other things.
https://debbugs.gnu.org/32504#51
I don't see any reason for it to be controversial, either. If some people
like the terseness (and what I believe is the unneeded obfuscation) of (nth 8 x)
they can still use it. I'd rather have (in-string-or-comment-p s). The syntax-ppss
situation is particularly painful because the doc is actually in
parse-partial-sexp. So you're using syntax-ppss but have to remember to
find the doc in that other function (unless you like clicking a link each time)
João