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

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> What I meant was that the caller would have to care about (nth 5 ppss)
>>> too, wherever she now looked only at (nth 3 ppss) and (nth 4 ppss).
>> That's what I understood and my suggestion does address this issue (tho
>> it means that (nth 5 ppss) will sometimes refer to a buffer position
>> after (point) and sometimes before).
> I still miss what you need (nth 5 ppss) for here.  Is it for providing
> the OLDSTATE argument in another call to `parse-partial-sexp'?

Yes.
Think of calling parse-partial-sexp twice, passing the first result to
the second call, where the first result is in the middle of a "/*/".


        Stefan