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setopt float warning unexpected

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Message #62 received at 73098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 73098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 shipmints <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:53:29 -0400

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> 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

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