I'm suggesting that there will be noise from people who convert from a working (setq some-package-option 2) to (setopt some-package-option 2). This is not a request to change the elisp type system, it is a request to consider if setopt's / customize internals should be relaxed to the equivalent of #'= for these simple cases.

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 7:09 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

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