Re: Looks for prebroken pieces of dead items in the pure relevant function. (issue 18090043)

[Mike Solomon]

On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:49 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> On 2013/10/30 08:09:53, mike7 wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:32 AM, mailto:address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> > I do not understand the Todo: comment; nothing should have been
> suicided
>> > at this stage.
> 
>> The original clef is suicided in the handle_prebroken_dependencies
> function,
>> which is the same place that the new begin and end of line grobs are
> created
>> (see break-substitution.cc).
> 
>> Conceptually, I don’t like the idea that a suicided grob contains
> useful
>> information.
> 
> I see now.
> It seems that !is_live() means that we are sure the Grob will never be
> printed, yet we need to keep the data structure around for some other
> reason.  You might put your name on the "Todo" comment so people know
> the point of view is from somebody other that the original author of the
> handle_prebroken_dependencies() function.
> 

Ok.

Cheers,
MS