Re: Strange eval-after-load

[Richard Stallman]

    There is, and thanks to Thi for telling me about it.  However, this new
    `declare' feature in defmacro seems to be a bit ad-hoc.  Since it
    doesn't exist in older Emacsen, it's not suitable for packages like CC
    Mode, which will continue to need edebugging on these other (X)Emacsen.

It is not necessary for the CC Mode files installed in Emacs to work
on any platform other than the Emacs version they are installed in.
If you want to support XEmacs using eval-after-load, that is ok, but
please conditionalize the eval-after-load calls so that they don't get
used on Emacs.

As for old Emacs versions, they are not worth uglifying our sources for.