Re: Time to merge scratch/correct-warning-pos into master, perhaps?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Just a small point, Lars.  The change you made to
> byte-compile-from-buffer earlier on today, I had to revert.

(I've now reverted the other parts of my change.)

> That function now needs to call read-positioning-symbols.  But if
> load-read-function gets bound to r-p-s, a function in a subsidiary
> place gets symbols with position, and doesn't know what to do with
> them.  This breaks the bootstrap.

I guess we'd have to introduce a new variable if we want to allow
customising the read function here, then.

> Anyhow, I'm having a beer this evening!  This is the most difficult bug
> I've ever fixed, anywhere.

Cheers!

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