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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] BREAKING CHANGE -- removing #+BABEL file-wide property
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:17:30 +0200
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On 10/21/11 12:59 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:

> So, using your above mentioned example, after the first PROPERTY line,
> euro=1.3795 and SALESTAX not set, while after the second one
> salestax=.15, and euro is unset? That would be quite bad.

That's what I'd expected, but actually, euro is set and salestax is 
not. Apparently subsequent PROPERTY lines are ignored if they try to 
set an already existing property.

> To clarify: before, we could use #+BABEL and #PROPERTY to do similar
> things. Now the whole #+BABEL has been removed, and only the
> functionality from #+PROPERTY is left - correct?

That's my understanding. And #+PROPERTY offers equivalent 
functionality in almost every way, but not, as far as I can 
understand, in this corner case.

Christian