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27.1; compiled replace-string breaks repeat-complex-command

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From: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 45607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#45607: 27.1; compiled replace-string breaks repeat-complex-command
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 01:39:01 -0700

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:58 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > Cc: 45607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
> > From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> > Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:40:58 +0300
> >
> > > Does anybody know of a more general solution to this?
> >
> > This feature is broken by design as I explained in
> > https://debbugs.gnu.org/45617#17
>
> It isn't broken, you just expect it to do some magic that it never
> meant to do.
>
> As in many other cases, the perfect is the enemy of the good here.
>

I think it's reasonable to consider the different behavior of evaled vs
compiled to be a bug.  Which one is correct can be debated, but the fact
that they're different is a bug.  Would you disagree?

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