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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:40:19 -0700
> Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
>  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > Then I suggest not to support strings at all in `define-keymap`.
> > The old string syntax for keys just sucks and we should work towards
> > its reduction, even if it will stay with us for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Would it make sense to document the old string syntax (e.g. "\C-xa") to
> be "considered deprecated" or something to that effect?

"Considered": yes.  But let's not cause it produce warnings when
byte-compiling etc.