From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 35222@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35222: 26.1; `read-command' documentation
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:24:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_Yrzb=0_GN2=ShiNjG4hShr4ZAr61XUCsa5caXA0JakQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54098355-6406-459c-9a3a-b7c5b4fe286b@default>
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 18:14, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 1. The doc string does not say what happens if DEFAULT is not provided
> (so `nil') and the user enters empty input. And what happens is not
> obvious. Please add that information to the doc string.
Um, can we declare the current behaviour a bug, and instead return nil
in this case? That matches the current doc string (i.e., return
DEFAULT-VALUE), and avoids the whole mess with the empty string symbol
which is weird and pretty useless as far as I can tell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-10 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 22:13 bug#35222: 26.1; `read-command' documentation Drew Adams
2019-04-10 22:24 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-04-10 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-11 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-12 0:11 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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