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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Literate Programming - Continue a Source Block?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:00:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80mxhhndri.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87hb7pxe92.fsf@gmail.com

Hi Eric and Neeum,

Eric Schulte wrote:
>> Overwriting is still not supported, but I don't know if that's all that
>> important (I don't have an immediate need for it). And noweb by default
>> did not have it either, so perhaps it's not needed for most tasks
>
> This was my thinking.
>
>> (OTOH, you may want to think about what the best solution is if later
>> on you decide to add overwriting capability).
>
> If someone finds a real need for overwriting code blocks, hopefully the
> specifics of their need will point towards an implementation.

The only case that pops up to my mind now, of such a use case where
overwriting could be "needed" (well, let's say useful) is for some pedagogical
document that one would write, where code is constructed from a simplistic
(and buggy) approach to a correct one.

One could say: the code to do that is this one, and show the block contents.

Then, discover problems to it, explain them in the document, and make a new
version of the block with the same name (for tangling reasons).

Then, highlight some limitations of the new code, fix them in a new block with
the same name, etc.

Does that mean it needs to be implemented?  Up to you...

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-08  5:47 Literate Programming - Continue a Source Block? Neeum Zawan
2011-06-08  7:34 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-06-08 15:20   ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-08 19:40     ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-08 21:20       ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-10  4:55         ` Avdi Grimm
2011-06-10 19:09         ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-10 19:27           ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-10 20:00             ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-12  8:32               ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-13 22:04                 ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-14 20:48                   ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-15 17:23                     ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-15 21:19                       ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-16  4:54                         ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-16  2:35                       ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-11  1:02             ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-11  0:44           ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-11 20:08             ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-12  5:36               ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-13 21:57                 ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-15  5:17                   ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-15 17:27                     ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-15 19:37                       ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-16  2:26                         ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-17  4:30                           ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-17  4:39                             ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-17  7:00                               ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2011-06-19 23:38                                 ` Neeum Zawan
2011-06-16 10:14     ` Olaf.Hamann

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