Re: antlr-mode.el - need some support by python.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/21/2015 07:08 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Just having a dynamically-scoped var by itself seems a more verbose and
> > error-prone approach to me.
>
> The narrowing state is just the same as a dynamically-scoped var, it's
> just not exposed in the same way to Elisp.

I'm not sure I understand your point. It's the same, yet not the same: 
it's a special var which many built-in function respect, so the user 
respects it automatically, most of the time, without even trying to.