Subject: Re: bug#55156: [PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and `defconst-f`

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:41 -0400

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  > I sincerely question the wisdom of messing with this, for the reasons
  > that were described, which seem to be some inelegant code somewhere in
  > the bowels of the byte compiler.  Do we really care enough about such
  > inelegance to make potentially breaking changes in code that works for
  > decades and causes zero trouble to Lisp programmers?

I feel the same.

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