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Martin Stjernholm <mast@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> I got bugged by users enough to come up with the whole cc-bytecomp
> kludge, at least.

Why do users care about how the package is compiled?  If they worry
about compilation warnings, they should be told not to unless they've
determined that they really indicate a bug.

> What would be the problem of adding a macro in the
> bytecomp environment to control the warning aspect only?

You can already turn off warnings (and CL actually has `declare'), but
doing that covered up bugs in W3, for instance.