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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:39:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t6ia3DSNEL_LDm6VVf6Y61S9lGTj6nrMeqF0b9SdM3EWiK82UxFaqE408gmEoFMuNQrbna-oEPkFI0M0whTjMzsJTu82Ih10XK0dkyeD7mA=@protonmail.com> (raw)

I have an optional numeric argument n passed to a function. 

Am having difficulty setting a default for it to cater for both the 
interactive and non-interactive cases.

Is the below how to do it ?   

  (setq n (if (or (not n) (not numberp n)) 0 n))

I also have an optional string bfrn, to which I am using

  (setq bfrn  (if (or (not bfrn) (string= bfrn "")) "Context" bfrn))




             reply	other threads:[~2024-09-12 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-12 17:39 Heime [this message]
2024-09-12 19:17 ` Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-09-12 20:00   ` Heime
2024-09-12 20:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-09-12 20:29       ` Heime

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