Comparing against the old value before setting matched the original
C implementation, but there is no reason to use this restriction. In
particular, this inhibits using OptionSet to determine when the option
was set. If users need to handle a case where the option _changed_, it
is easy to do so in an OptionSet autocommand using v:option_new and
v:option_old (and friends).
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