Subject: Re: bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:08:59 +0300

> From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 06:59:31 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Yessir. I was talking about users' likely expectations for type coercion. There are cases in elisp where numeric
> type coercion is the default, e.g., (= 2.0 2) is t. I expected it to be so here, too.
> 
> If you feel this is moot, then so be it.

Let's see if there are other opinions.

But basically, you'd like 'float to be an alias for 'number, right?