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From: Zhaohui Li <lizhaohui1991@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Feature wish: macro functionality for literate programming
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 10:58:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAATu+k9VOB8qZ9xBj1tGhTvyJeY8QADG93saRUJQ0M40iWGNvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I use org-babel with [:noweb] argument for literate programming.
But soon I find the macro functionality is absent in this system.
For example, I have
#+name: example
#+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle yes :noweb yes
dir = "~"
Find.find(dir) do |path|
  if <<path is a file>>
    puts path
  end
end
#+END_SRC

#+name: path is a file
#+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle no :noweb yes
FileTest.file?(path)
#+END_SRC

But with macro functionality, the program can be more flexible:
#+name: example
#+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle yes :noweb yes
dir = "~"
Find.find(dir) do |path|
  if <<is_a_file?(path)>>
    puts path
  end
end
#+END_SRC

#+name: is_a_file?
#+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle no :noweb yes :noweb-macro file-path
FileTest.file?(file-path)
#+END_SRC

In [is_a_file?] block, I use argument [:noweb-macro] to indicate this block
is a macro with
one argument.
When expanding block [example], <<is_a_file?(path)>> will be expanded to
[FileTest.file?(path)].
As a result, The src-block [is_a_file?] achieves better abstraction.

I have tried native macro replacement of org({{{is_a_file?(path)}}}), but
it doesn't work well in src-block.

So, is this feature valuable?

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