Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

> For :results list, the manual says, "Interpret the results as an Org list.  If the result is a single value, create a list of one element".  I don't find that clarifies what would be best.
>
> Thoughts?

In my patch, I followed the previous code branch:

(list (if (stringp e) e (format "%S" e)))

As you see, "%S" have been used previously for non-string results.
I cannot find explanation in git log.

That said, I think that it will be more consistent to leave strings
specifically as is. See the attached patch.