Re: Calling/using named babel code blocks

["Berry, Charles" <ccberry@health.ucsd.edu>]

> On Dec 18, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought I understood "metaprogramming," i.e., creating generic code blocks that can be called by any other code block regardless of programming language -- but apparently I don't. I have this
> 
>  #+name: my-random-gen
> #+header: :var n=0 :var lim=0
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (loop repeat n collect (random* lim))
> #+END_SRC
> 
> and I have the variables initialized to zero. But now I don't know how to call it with another code block. I've tried various versions of this
> 
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> my-random-gen(5 1.0)
> #+END_SRC
> 
> and this various versions of this
> 
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var results=my-random-gen() :var n=5 :var lim=1.0
> results
> #+END_SRC
> 
> to no avail. What am I missing? How can I actually use, call my-random-gen in other code blocks?
> 

Do these help?

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb yes
'<<my-random-gen(5, 1.0)>>
#+END_SRC


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var mrg=my-random-gen(5, 1.0)
mrg
#+END_SRC

Chuck