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    > Starting immediately, please do NOT install calls to eval-after-load
    > in Emacs without asking for my specific approval.

    I would beg you not to be so dogmatic.

This rule is the only way to get control over the situation.

      For example, in
    cc-defs.el, we have:

	;; Make edebug understand the macros.
	(eval-after-load "edebug"
	  '(progn
	       (def-edebug-spec cc-eval-when-compile t)
	       (def-edebug-spec c-point t)

Isn't there now a defun feature for doing this?