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On Tue 12 Sep 2023 at 04:30, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
> Perhaps elisp would be better off to accept them and make cl-defun the
> norm, instead of seing macros like define-minor-mode re-implement the
> technique and some other macro possibly do something similar which
> leads to more less maintanable code.

cl-defmacro would not help with define-minor-mode because it cannot
describe the special argument list structure in this case.