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

[martin rudalics]

>> 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'?

martin