Re: Uninformative comment in files.el

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Stallman writes:

 >     Or maybe the package [...]  wants the overlay to cover the
 >     whole buffer, for instance,
 > 
 > [That is a] pretty silly [way] to use an overlay.  I won't say it
 > is inconceivable that any package does this, but I think it is not
 > sufficient reason to forego fixing this problem.

Well, one (and possibly more) whole-buffer overlay(s) is a consequence
of an obvious strategy to implement a top-down parser.  Ie, wrap each
non-terminal parsed with an overlay to carry annotations as you return
from recursive levels.  At least, it was obvious to me when I did it.