Subject: Re: bug#56739: 29.0.50; `cl-psetq' and `cl-psetf' fail to recognize symbol macros

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:42:04 -0400

> Setq, with CL behaviour, would behave like setf for symbol macros.  And
> setq is in C.  I don't know if maintainers would accept such a change in
> C (performance, dependencies, ...).

Quoting cl-macs.el:

    [...]
    (defun cl--sm-macroexpand-1 (orig-fun exp &optional env)
    [...]
           ;; Convert setq to setf if required by symbol-macro expansion.
    [...]

-- Stefan