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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> That code seems to majorly obfuscate `byte-compile-if'; is it really
> necessary to do that?

I don't know.

> It be nice to structure it so that the amount of intrusion into the
> `normal' function was very small, with most of the work being done
> by helper function(s);

Feel free.

> that would make it easier to add this feature to other forms.

I'm not convinced that's worthwhile, but if you want to do it I won't
bother revisiting the change.