From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:18:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvttekfwyv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <RLKF_QaqjNDDPOLh1uqMKmqKaR-Y-81p2yFRF8e1aRo2WpDcyudWhrniCWLC07aInUxSR0VqjKE_9eRURZBRdCyYmOArv4y6xIF4XjKUmEo=@protonmail.com> (Heime's message of "Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000")
> If user does not pass anything to `read-string`, would the value not be nothing.
Not if you provide a sane `default-value` argument.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-12 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-12 17:39 Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments Heime
2024-09-12 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-09-12 20:00 ` Heime
2024-09-12 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-09-12 20:29 ` Heime
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