Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[Richard Stallman]

    +  skip_soft_newlines = !NILP (Fsymbol_value
    +                              (intern
    +                               ("use-hard-newlines")));
    +

It would look nicer to break the line like this:

    +  skip_soft_newlines
    +    = !NILP (Fsymbol_value (intern ("use-hard-newlines")));
    +

However, if C code is going to examine the value of that variable 
frequently, it would be more efficient to make it a C-level
variable defined with DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER in buffer.c.