Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1

[Andreas Röhler]

On 05.09.2016 17:22, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> Exactly.
>
> Just treat the "p" (lowercase p) interactive form as the special case 
> where you only need to deal with numeric arguments and the default 
> numeric argument is 1.
>
> If you need to deal with numeric, nil and other non-numeric arguments 
> like (4), (16), etc, use the "P" (uppercase p) interactive form. The 
> "P" interactive form passes the args to the function in their raw, 
> untouched form.

Leaving out the argument with uppercased P, it sends nil --correct-- 
whose numeric value is considered 1 again.

Understand it might be considered a feature, but think the caused 
inconsistency weights in more.