bug#38072: when `byte-compile-file' finds out that a file is `no-byte-compile', it ignores `load' parameter

[Stefan Kangas]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

>>> FWIW, I find the "and load" feature to be a mistake: the function should
>>> return whether or not it successfully compiled the file, but shouldn't
>>> offer to load the result, since the callers can just as easily do
>>> it themselves (and then they can easily control what happens when
>>> compilation did not succeed).
>>> So, I'd suggest we deprecate that "feature" rather than try and decide
>>> which behavior is better.
>>
>> But if we do deprecate this, is there a better alternative that we can
>> point users to?  Should we just tell them to run two commands?
>
> would having the load performed by `emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load' an
> option?

Yes, that is good.  I didn't know about that command.

So I agree with Stefan M that the prefix argument should be deprecated.
Do we have a process for that or should it just be removed?