Re: question about narrowed behavior of next-property-change et al.

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:33:32AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> No, it doesn't, because if you think about the possible case where
> Miles's change can impact the behavior of code, you'll realize that
> it can only do so for code that is already flawed.

... and I suspect in most cases where it has any effect, it will to _fix_ a
(yet undiscovered) bug, rather than creating one.  So even without any
checking, the net effect is likely to be positive rather than negative.

I did a grep for "{next,prev}{,-single}-property-change" (which I think is
the set of functions effect), and there are over 200 occurances (most of
which are actually the `-single' variants).  This seems enough that doing any
kind of thorough check is a fair burden, and I really don't think it's worth
the time.

What about just doing some spot checks, just to see if there appear to be any
cases where the current undocumented behavior is relied upon?

-Miles
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