Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core

[Mark Oteiza]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 09:50:05 -0400
>> Cc: Emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> > Why do we need to remove buffer_defaults? Once it is not exposed to
>> > Lisp as variables, what's the harm?
>> 
>> None aside from (presumably) dead code.
>
> It's not dead code at all.  It's how Emacs knows the default value of
> every variable that can become buffer-local, and that's how it can
> initialize every new buffer with those default values.  I don't see
> how we could remove that.

Oops.  Thanks for the correction.