Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

On 06.07.2016 07:03, Robert Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Noam Postavsky
> <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>      The recommended way to test whether the function was called using
>>      ‘call-interactively’ is to give it an optional argument
>>      ‘print-message’ and use the ‘interactive’ spec to make it
>>      non-‘nil’ in interactive calls.  Here’s an example:
>>
>>       (defun foo (&optional print-message)
>>         (interactive "p")
>>         (when print-message
>>           (message "foo")))
> This makes little sense to me.  Every time I have a function that
> needs to test whether it was called interactively you want me to add
> essentially an interactive-flag to its argument signature and then
> never send this argument when called non-interactively since the
> caller won't care and the argument is optional so it will be nil by
> default.  Again, why should we name and have to look at an argument to
> the function when the interactive test we want is internal to it.
> This is similar to the argument that we shouldn't have to send the
> default 'interactive argument to called-interactively-p.
>
> I'm with John, let's simplify this.  Let's undeprecate
> (interactive-p).  Did people actually have problems with that that
> kept coming up?  Raman and I seemed to have used it for years without
> encountering any.
>
> And John, if you undeprecate it do you really need a patch or can you
> just change it?
>
> Bob
>

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