Remove outdated comment in syntax.el

* lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el (syntax-ppss-toplevel-pos): Remove
outdated comment.  (Bug#30617)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
index 6106720f7a56047ff8f73b7ac0073a0aa81fb25e..ad1a9665ff06d5830902ccb0fce091667005b181 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
@@ -363,12 +363,6 @@ An \"outermost position\" means one that it is outside of any syntactic entity:
 outside of any parentheses, comments, or strings encountered in the scan.
 If no such position is recorded in PPSS (because the end of the scan was
 itself at the outermost level), return nil."
-  ;; BEWARE! We rely on the undocumented 9th field.  The 9th field currently
-  ;; contains the list of positions of the enclosing open-parens.
-  ;; I.e. those positions are outside of any string/comment and the first of
-  ;; those is outside of any paren (i.e. corresponds to a nil ppss).
-  ;; If this list is empty but we are in a string or comment, then the 8th
-  ;; field contains a similar "toplevel" position.
   (or (car (nth 9 ppss))
       (nth 8 ppss)))