From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
To: Yu <yu_icq@gmx.at>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "noweb-ref": Limiting scope of definitions?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:16:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obtilgtb.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CANtbJLED9WY4DDm0c7r4oDEJ8pYOeNC_dX5DLao9sTd7HU+49w@mail.gmail.com
Yu <yu_icq@gmx.at> writes:
> Hello!
>
> Scenario
> -----------------
>
> * Maintain a potentially long org file as an appendix.
> * In this appendix, many independent scripting tasks will be documented.
> * Each such scripting task has similiar partial tasks, e.g. imports,
> "settings", ...
>
> In such a case, many independent scripts may contain a block
> "<<imports>>" or something or something to the same effect, i.e. an
> overlap of definitions could be avoided only by some sort of scoping:
> (a) manually, e.g. by prefixing the names with a script-specific
> string (e.g. <<task1-imports>>. While this is flexible (i.e.
> allows reuse of code from other script), it also reduces the
> readability of the NOWEB code).
> (b) providing some sort of scoping, e.g. declaring definitions section-local.
>
>
> Implementation Idea
> ----------------------------------
>
> A simple implementation, maintaining the flexibility of the manual
> solution, would be to create a header argument like ":noweb-prefix",
> that effectively just adds a prefix to the noweb reference names (both
> in declaring the block (#+name, :noweb-ref) and in using it
> (<<name>>)), unless such a prefix is explicitly specified. This could
> then be set as needed, for specific blocks or subtrees (as property)
> or any mixture of such.
>
> A prefix would then be recognized by a delimiter string to be specified.
>
> This solution would also be downward compatible with existing files,
> as the syntax for recognizing a prefix would be relevant only when
> deciding whether to apply an explicitly introduced ":noweb-prefix".
>
This does seem like a good idea and a header argument such as
":noweb-prefix" is certainly the way to implement such functionality.
I'll add this to my long term stack.
Best,
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
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2012-01-30 16:31 "noweb-ref": Limiting scope of definitions? Yu
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