Subject: bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really?

From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:14:40 +0000

>> Let's see what others think about this aspect.
>
> A naive question probably: Why do we want to do "that" at run time? 
> Can't we make the byte compiler detect such occurrences?
>

Because init files are typically not bytecompiled, and because that would 
not catch interactive uses with e.g. M-:.