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    > It would mean that there is no longer an argument you could use,
    > noninteractively, to toggle the mode.

    Actually there is: the symbol `toggle' does it.

Ok.

    > Another drawback is simply that the interactive and noninteractive
    > behavior of these commands will be different.

    Not really.  It just means that the argument passed to the minor mode
    function in the absence of a prefix-arg won't be nil but will be `toggle'.
    As a matter of fact, this is already the case.

It sounds rather clean.  Would you please add it to etc/TODO?