From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Babel - simple getting started problem
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:52:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5qsqflu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocm9amhl.fsf@mundaneum.com> ("Sébastien Vauban"'s message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:39:02 +0100")
Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Dan Davison wrote:
>>
>> * meantest
>> #+srcname: calcmean(data=trial)
>> #+begin_src R
>> mean(data)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+results: calcmean
>> : 6.5
>>
>> or alternative syntax
>>
>> #+begin_src R :var data=trial
>> mean(data)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+results:
>> : 6.5
>
> As I am as well *learning* Org-babel and its satellites (R, GNU screen, etc.),
> I'm wondering if there is one of the two above syntaxes that gets more chance
> to be the survivor -- would there be a war between both ;-)
>
> I mean: I'm not yet attached to any of the two. Which one should I use better,
> ensuring more portability over time? Or are these both totally equivalent,
> and will it stay so for the coming years?
>
Both of these syntaxes are totally equivalent, and both should be fully
supported into the foreseeable future. As for the winner in a war
between the two it would be the :var syntax. The :var syntax is more
fundamental as it's part of the header-argument syntax which is core to
org-babel so there is no conceivable way that it would not be supported,
while the srcname(args) syntax is more syntactic-sugar on top of the
existing header argument syntax.
That said you should be safe using either. -- Eric
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 7:20 Babel - simple getting started problem Graham Smith
2009-12-07 9:57 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-12-07 10:12 ` Graham Smith
2009-12-07 14:58 ` Graham Smith
2009-12-07 17:12 ` Dan Davison
2009-12-07 17:36 ` Graham Smith
2009-12-07 20:13 ` Dan Davison
2009-12-07 20:19 ` Graham Smith
2009-12-08 8:39 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-12-18 18:52 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
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