Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Ok, I'll try again: let's suppose an extension that highlights chunks of
  > code that might have side effects, or that could use multi-threading
  > features, or that could result on calls to certain functions,

Those certainly don't need the statement structure.

                                                                  or some
  > other condition specified by the user.

That's not specific, that's handwaving.

                                           There is no doubt about the value
  > of such extension,

How can we say anything about the worth of something totally unspecified?

To reach your desired conclusion, you will leap huge logical
crevasses.


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