read-from-minibuffer

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

Hi everybody,

looking at the doc-string of  `read-from-minibuffer' 

I'm astonished somehow what's said concerning the 
optional sixth argument `DEFAULT-VALUE': 

"but `read-from-minibuffer' does NOT return DEFAULT-VALUE
 if the user enters empty input!  It returns the empty string."

Isn't that a pity?

Should someone know the reason for that design, would
be great to understand it.

Thanks

Andreas Roehler