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. On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 2:07 AM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > From: Ship Mints <shipmi...@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. >
