Excessive type-strictness?

[James Harkins]

In lilypond 2.15.36, I just hit an issue where this override caused lilypond to 
exit with code 1.

\once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1

Changing it to this allowed compilation to succeed:

\once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.0

I tried to make a MCE but both overrides worked in that context.

I just wanted to ask if anyone else had seen anything like this. For the bug 
squad folks and David: I do not intend this as a complete bug report; please do 
not chastise me for failing to include a tiny example or whatnot. I'm only 
asking for others' experiences at this point.

hjh


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