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bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#56400: Make setopt warn on type mismatch
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 21:51:01 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Why not make `setopt' warn in case there is a type mismatch?
> For example, in:
>
>     (setopt tetris-buffer-width "hello")
>
> But the type of `tetris-buffer-width' is natnum.
>
> I think this would save users from shooting themselves in the foot.
> If they are sure they want to do that, they can use `setq' or
> `customize-set-variable' directly.

This is exactly what `set-variable' does.





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