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

[Kaushal Modi]

Ah! So you are suggesting to use the lowercase (interactive "p") AND (setq
counter (or arg 1)) !

I thought you were providing an alternative to not having to use the
lowercase p interactive form.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:37 PM Andreas Röhler <
andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> Not sure IIUC
>
> (defun whatarg-p (arg)
>   (interactive "p")
>   (message "%s" arg))
>
> Called with simply C-u without numeric argument gives me "4"
>
> (4) would be the result with uppercase P
>
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Kaushal Modi