RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23

[Gregory Heytings]

Drew Adams:
> My only request is to not remove `interactive-p'.
> My request is to please leave it "obsolete".

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but I don't even understand why it 
is marked "obsolete".  If (called-interactively-p 'interactive) is a 
common idiom (and it seems to be, the docstring of called-interactively-p 
indicates that "the only known proper use of 'interactive' for KIND is in 
deciding whether to display a helpful message, or how to display it."), it 
would make perfect sense to have, in subr.el:

(defun interactive-p ()
  "Shorthand for (called-interactively-p 'interactive).
See `called-interactively-p'."
  (called-interactively-p 'interactive))

Unless of course there is a long-term goal to replace "interactive-p" with 
some other definition.

Gregory