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

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:53:29 -0400

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> I tend to agree.  If the type doesn't accept the value, you can use
> something lower-level than `setopt`, while you argue with the maintainer
> to try and get them to change their type.
>
> IMO, the whole point of `setopt` is to check the value against the type.

+1