From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
Cc: 73098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 09:06:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r09uwuf3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN+1HbphcHnuUYyFA-9RB0T9cRKLUgFpevenOfTOrj3ayHXcKg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Ship Mints on Sat, 7 Sep 2024 09:14:54 -0400)
> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 09:14:54 -0400
>
> This one bit me yesterday on Emacs 29.3 as I was revising my init file (for the thousandth time this week).
>
> As setopt becomes more widely recommended, people will likely encounter situations like the below where they
> expect constant numeric types to be coerced.
>
> (defcustom temp-float "Float"
> "Float type."
> :type 'float)
>
> (setopt temp-float 2.0) ; works
> (setopt temp-float 2) ; Warning (emacs): Value '2' does not match type float
If you are going to allow integer values, shouldn't :type be 'number,
not 'float? The documentation of 'float says:
‘float’
The value must be floating point.
"Must be floating point." The value 2 isn't.
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2024-09-07 13:14 bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected Ship Mints
2024-09-08 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-08 10:59 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-08 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-08 11:15 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-09 15:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-09 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-09 15:35 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-09 16:40 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-09 16:38 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-09 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-09 17:46 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-09 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-09 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-10 8:22 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-10 11:58 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-10 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-11 22:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-13 15:11 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-13 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 17:14 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-13 18:27 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-14 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 19:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-13 19:26 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-13 19:38 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-14 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-14 12:33 ` Ship Mints
2024-09-08 11:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-09-08 12:28 ` Ship Mints
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