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+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.el
@@ -370,6 +370,18 @@ symbol itself."
"Return non-nil if EXP can be copied without extra cost."
(or (symbolp exp) (macroexp-const-p exp)))
+(defun macroexp-quote (v)
+ "Returns an expression E such that `(eval E)' is V.
+
+E is either V or (quote V) depending on whether V evaluates to
+itself or not."
+ (if (and (not (consp v))
+ (or (keywordp v)
+ (not (symbolp v))
+ (memq v '(nil t))))
+ v
+ (list 'quote v)))
+
;;; Load-time macro-expansion.
;; Because macro-expansion used to be more lazy, eager macro-expansion