Re: [PATCH 21.4] Make syntax tables a compile time option.

APPROVE Windows-21-4 Advisory, of course, it's your call. Andy> I plan to apply this to the windows branch and compile Andy> binaries without syntax-table support. Go ahead, with two caveats: (1) Please change all the references (especially the configure option) from "syntax table support" to "syntax [text] property support". We still support syntax tables, of course. What Matt's patch added is consulting tables attached to extents rather than buffer-local ones. (2) This patch still suffers from semantic redundancy and (the existing) bad design/implementation as mentioned before. And I'd still like to aim for a run-time rather than build-time implementation of the option. If I don't get time to work on it myself, then I'll give up on it, but for the moment I'm not going to put this patch in the 21.4 mainline. Of course I'd appreciate your advice on implementation. (Of course I've considered that given that Ben has already reworked 21.5, this may not be worth doing in 21.4. However, I think it's a worthwhile investment for me personally as I plan to do some other stuff with syntax and with syntax-property-like ideas in the future.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py