Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > How about adding an option letting the user disable the type checking of > > some options? > > Like what? Would we accept, for example, a string where the type is > 'symbol'? Or any value where type is 'boolean'?
The new option would have as value a list of option names. The user could then add those options with incorrect type specs. And for those specified options Emacs would skip type checking entirely. I _don't_ think melting types in either way would be a good idea. Michael.