From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: aaronecay@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Noweb reference eval syntax does not work
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:19:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1605111602380.1274@charles-berrys-macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3d8i8iy.fsf@saiph.selenimh>
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> The motivation for noweb-ref is discussed in this thread from about 5
>> years ago:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/42636/focus=42639
>>
>> FWIW, I haven't used noweb-ref.
>
> Thank you for the pointers. It seems that :noweb-ref is here for
> a task, that NAME alone cannot fulfill. I guess we have to keep it,
> then.
>
> Although I understand that <<noweb-refs>> can refer to a concatenation
> of source block contents, I cannot find any meaning in <<noweb-refs()>>,
> which would be the result of evaluation of a block that doesn't exist.
>
> Maybe we should simply error out on this one.
>
> WDYT?
Error out sounds good.
If one wants to do this
#+name: lotsa-blocks
#+begin_src my-lang :noweb yes :var a="this"
<<noweb-refs>>
#+end_src
#+begin_src my-lang :noweb yes
<<lotsa-blocks(a="that")>>
#+end_src
it seems concise enough already.
Chuck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-11 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-05 21:39 [BUG] Noweb reference eval syntax does not work fm4d
2016-05-08 9:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-08 12:57 ` Rasmus
2016-05-08 16:32 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-11 21:34 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-11 22:40 ` Samuel Wales
2016-05-11 23:19 ` Charles C. Berry [this message]
2016-05-12 23:35 ` Aaron Ecay
2016-05-15 22:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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2016-08-04 21:11 Karsten Schmidt
2016-08-05 2:25 ` Charles C. Berry
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