Re: Specifiers

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Yes, pretty much, except we don't have to worry about combinations of
>> buffer-local with other forms of foo-local at the same time (well,
>> supposedly we have to worry about it for buffer-local + frame-local,
>> but we already know we don't handle that correctly).
> That's supposed to be an advantage?

What does "That" refer to?
Not having to worry about combinations is an advantage, yes.

> I don't quite see what handling independent heaps of complexity for the
> three kinds of locality we currently support (and window-locality is
> about to come, too, even though for faces, _another_ complexity source
> handled independently at the moment) is supposed to be buying us.

Ever heard of "divide and conquer"?
In any case, try to write the code, and you'll quickly see what it is
buying us.


        Stefan