From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:26:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo9fhl0c.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86vc7nevhb.fsf@somewhere.org
"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> Eric Schulte wrote:
>>>> What is still unclear to me as well, is why =()= and =nil= aren't the same
>>>> from Babel's point of view?
>>>
>>> However, I think I understood this one: it is because nil is interpreted as a
>>> string, not as the empty list; right?
>>>
>>> That's because strings aren't quoted, right?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Apart from the automatic (and, maybe, sometimes unwished) coercion of a symbol
> into a string (case of `nil'), are you aware of other tricky stuff?
>
> For my own understanding, why didn't we force the user to quote all strings,
> and avoid the above problem?
>
We have to consider named blocks or data as well as strings and Emacs
Lisp.
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-06 15:44 [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-07 13:29 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-07 15:47 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-07 19:42 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-08 20:14 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-08 21:07 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09 8:13 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:03 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 13:46 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-09 19:46 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-10 7:54 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:10 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 14:09 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-15 15:26 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-04-12 22:09 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 14:04 ` Sebastien Vauban
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