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    >     1 - sometimes a single `setq' is not enough to activate a feature.
    > That is true, but I don't see that this means we need a special
    > framework for these features.

    There's no special framework involved.  Just a convention for how to call
    the activation function.

I do not see that we need a special framework for these features
merely because they are "experimental".  It just seems superfluous.