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

From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:33:59 +0200

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 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.
>     [...]

Clever :-)