Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> I tend to agree. If the type doesn't accept the value, you can use > something lower-level than `setopt`, while you argue with the maintainer > to try and get them to change their type. > > IMO, the whole point of `setopt` is to check the value against the type. +1