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Richard Stallman wrote:

> Can you offer a strong reason?

Apparently not, but whatever.

Can you please just change the mode-name doc-string (eg "The value is
not guaranteed to be a string, use (blah) to get a string value"), add
a NEWS entry in the incompatible changes section, and delete this from
FOR-RELEASE.

Thanks.