Re: Musings: Supposed places of safety, guaranteed by parse-partial-sexp are not safe.

[martin rudalics]

> The parse-partial scanner works strictly left to right.  If (nth 5 ppss)
> records the left hand bit of "/*", we are not yet in a comment.  We're
> probably about to do a division.  Similarly, after * of "*/", we're still
> in the comment, probably just passed a comment prefix.

If we can look ahead by one character, there is no probability but
certainty.  And the latter is what you want in (nth 4 ppss).  The
remaining case is with an "/" at the end of a buffer and that case
wouldn't trouble me.

> I disagree.  I think keeping the stricly L to R invariant of the parse is
> critically important (but don't ask me why :-).

Why would looking ahead violate a L to R rule?

martin