Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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True.  Though I don't fully understand these warnings (why not then
also warn about if without else?), but taking them away is a bit rude
to those who care.

I think losing warnings is unfortunate, but it's just one example.
We're losing the type information completely from the values.
...

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Or to use an int to point to and then copy into a companion enum
variable to after parsing, which would be my choice.

Yeah, I had the same thought. I'm just not sure how to do that in a way
that isn't a pain for the callers.

The discussion seems to have petered out around this point.
What (if anything) do we want to do with this topic?