bug#17498: 24.4.50; This function has a compiler macro `yes--cmacro'.

[Stefan Monnier]

> But this is different from emacs 22 and 23. And it looks
> counter-intuitive. I would expect macro expansion not to do much other
> than transforming the code passed in. So I am curious is current
> behaviour due to the byte-compiler i.e. if we don't do it this way it
> won't work?

Well, there's always some other way, but yes it's made so that it works
when byte-compiling.


        Stefan