Code compiled with older versions of cl-defstruct
that doesn’t use records may run into problems when used in a new Emacs. To alleviate this, Emacs detects when an old cl-defstruct
is used, and enables a mode in which type-of
handles old struct objects as if they were records.
If arg is positive, enable backward compatibility with old-style structs.
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https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Backward-Compatibility.html