Subject: Re: bug#63513: [PATCH] Make persist-defvar work with records and hash tables

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:06:06 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> May it be possible to promote `persist-hash-equal' and
>> `persist-copy-tree' to common subr.el functions?
>
> Why do we need them in subr.el, i.e. preloaded?  Why cannot these
> functions be autoloaded instead?

Similar functions - `string-equal-ignore-case' and `copy-tree' - are
already in subr.el. I do not see why the new functions discussed here
should be any different.

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