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Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argume
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional |
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Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:10:02 -0400 |
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> > Telling people to ignore the choice, or choose at random, while
> > the choice is still necessary, would not be better design.
> That is an argument for never allowing optional parameters to
> functions.
Only in certain special cases, where the omission of the argument
is a pitfall for specific reasons.
I am not sure what is right to do here, and I don't want to study the
issue enough to reach a conclusion. So I don't have views about what
we should do. I just disagreed with a particular argument.
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