>
> If your issue is that (identity *this*) is cumbersome, then I would
> agree.  What about if we change `org-babel-read' as with the attached
> patch s.t. *any* variable with ear-muffs will be read as Emacs Lisp,
> allowing this simpler alternative.
>

The attached patches change to the more natural *this* syntax, make
:post processing work intuitively with the :file header argument, and
adds documentation.  I'm posting them as patches here, rather than
simply committing them, because I don't want to push in a change like
this at the 11th hour before the release of 8.0.

Bastien, please commit these whenever you want, or let me know and I can
commit them.

Cheers,