Re: What to do about changeword?

[akim]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Akim,
> 
> Can you think of an (useful) application of the changeword machinery
> that could justify the order of magnitude slowdown in the parser?  As
> Rene's comments point out, changesyntax can achieve most of the useful
> parts of changeword's functionality without the overhead.
> 
> I vote for ripping it out to clean up the source, and remove the
> tempatation for people to use it! :-)

I agree.  I think Franc,ois is the guy to whom we should ask for the final
word.