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> I believe this weakens your argument for user defined functions in your situation.

It does not. This backport was not for a single user, but for deployment into the package repo used by multiple systems (including build systems). A one-off Meson build would be unsuitable for this case.

In any case, note that I didn't claim it was impossible without user-defined functions. It was simply messier and more painful, much as a special Meson build would be.