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"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> Yes, the integer arguments should not be used.

Then could you please simply not document them?  Or mark those as
obsolete or "XEmacs-compatible"?

> 1 - they are (contrary to the symbolic args like `executable').
> 2 - since the code has to support them (for the above reason), I might as
>     well let the functionality be available from elisp rather than go
>     though the trouble of hiding it.

I agree with this.  They work in XEmacs too.  But they are being
deprecated, for good reason, as I explained in the previous message.
I would appreciate it if you deprecated them too.