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gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006) writes:

> Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote in message 
> 
> >   (require 'cl)
> > 
> >   (defun* bar (&optional (default 5))
> >     (let* ((default-string (format "%s" default))
> >            (string (read-string "Number: "
> >                                 default-string
> >                                 nil
> >                                 default-string)))
> >       ;; needs check for wrong input
> >       (list (string-to-number string))))
> >   
> >   (defun foo (n)
> >     (interactive
> >      (bar 42))
> >     (insert (format "%s" (* 3 n))))
> 
> Pathetic solution. breaks one, fixes noone.
> It just accepted "u" as the input and did not do number
> validation.

Looks like I was right in my first posting: You obviously are a troll.

You didn't say anything about number validation and your icky little
"I look like a C program" Elisp demo didn't do that either. If you
could read you could have seen that there's a comment with respect to
validation in my code. Should be easy to add for every non-idiot.

But count me out on providing further free help to you. The next time
someone posts a solution you'll complain that it doesn't help you with
your tax declaration.

Edi.