() Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
() Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:00:02 -0800

   > Is there some deeper reason we're not using code that looks like this?
   >
   > (interactive
   >     (list (read-file-name (if current-prefix-arg
   >                               "Byte compile and load file: "
   >                             "Byte compile file: "))
   >           current-prefix-arg))

The current ‘interactive’ form supplies DIR and DEFAULT-FILENAME args to
‘read-file-name’ if the current buffer is Emacs Lisp (ish).  Those are
available to the user via ‘M-n’.

The form you propose doesn't do that.

   Ping? I'd like to treat this issue as a bugfix and change the
   interactive form to my proposal for 24.4.

Why do you want to treat this functionality as an "issue"?

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