Re: byte-opt.el addition - optimize list of compile-time constants

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: Zack Weinberg <address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:49:13 -0800

   the breakage [...] would be very limited indeed

even limited breakage is unacceptable.  an optimizer operates under a
sort of hippocratic oath -- don't make things worse!

if i as a user wrote (quote ...), that means i intend ... to be my
domain of play, not that of the byte compiler/optimizer/whatever.

if i wanted to expose something in ... to be non-opaque i would use
quasiquote.

what you propose to do would result in me not trusting (quote ...).
that's not good for my relationship w/ elisp.

thi