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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:05:57 -0500
> 
> I find strings standing for buffers to be ugly and a source of bugs

We could drop the feature of supporting buffer names, but alas, that
ship has sailed.  So we are stuck with the current API.  If accepting
a string of text is a frequent use case, we could create a wrapper
Lisp function to do that, though.