GNU bug report logs - #73098
setopt float warning unexpected

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 13:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 73098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:08:59 +0300

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 06:59:31 -0400
> Cc: 73098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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?
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