Re: Lisp primitives and their calling of the change hooks

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> I'm very far from convinced about the "elaborate special handling".
>> > Well, you agree that there're no advantages to having unbalanced change
>> > hooks,
>> No I don't.
> You don't?

How can you be surprised?  For several years now you've been complaining
about the lack of balance (which supposedly breaks cc-mode assumptions
or something) while I have been pushing back arguing that it's not a bug
(in itself: there are bugs, but the mere fact that it's not balanced is
not a bug).

> What, then, might those advantages be,

Implementation flexibility, of course (which apparently Eli doesn't
want to take advantage of very much).

> and in what conditions would those advantages outweigh the known
> disadvantages in allowing unbalanced change hooks?

What known disadvantages?


        Stefan