It looks like the general consensus is that we should not use fold()
    anymore in the frontends 

I haven't seen that and certainly don't agree with it.  The earlier we can
get rid of junk trees, the better.  There is no point in having separate
code in a front end to fold "1+1" nor a point in having  that be left in the
tree in that way until gimplification.

What I thought we agreed on was *only* that if a language has rules about
what *must* be a constant, we should not be depending on fold to be part
of the enforcement for those rules.

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