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29.0.50; macroexp-warn-and-return incompatible change

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 53618 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#53618: 29.0.50; macroexp-warn-and-return incompatible change
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 07:50:39 +0100

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So I'd appreciate a decision from the maintainers:
>
> Should we keep the backward-incompatible code we currently have on
> `master` or should we take my patch with its someone annoyingly
> placed extra argument (or some yet distinct option)?

We can't break compatibility in this way, so please go ahead and push
your patch.

(A longer term solution would be to introduce a new function with a less
confusing signature, and make the old one obsolete.)

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