Re: Placement of list within an interactive clause

[Jean Louis]

* Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-07-16 00:55]:
> > (defun my-fun-2 (&optional name)
> >   (interactive)
> >   (let ((name (or name (read-from-minibuffer "Name: "))))
> >     (message "Hello %s" name)))
> 
> Side note: `read-from-minibuffer` should probably be replaced here with
> `read-string`.  `read-from-minibuffer` is intended to be a low-level
> function upon which other `read-<foo>` functions are defined (such as
> `read-number`, read-string`, ...).

Sounds reasonable. 

I have removed all occurences of `read-from-minibuffer' from my
programs and replaced it with different function.

-- 
Jean

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