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Stefan Monnier writes:

 > > I see.  So you'd rather test the feature instead of check the version of
 > > Emacs?
 > 
 > Yes,

It's more reliable (it works with branches that may have the patch but
not an updated emacs-version), and Emacs Lisp is implemented by other
projects that don't follow Emacs versioning.