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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:28:18 +0300

> From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:11:18 -0400
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, 
> 	Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> Perhaps, some expanded advice in the docstring for setopt?
> 
> "Set VARIABLE/VALUE pairs with enforced types, and return the final VALUE.

"Enforce" is inaccurate, since a value that doesn't match :type just
emits a warning (which can be shut up by the users, if they want), it
doesn't signal an error.  And the variable is assigned the value event
if the type doesn't match.