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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug: header-args:C++ doesn't work
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:42:25 +0100
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Hello,

Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@gmail.com> writes:

> I was helping out "ablephar`" on IRC and they found that setting a
> file property `header-args:C++` does not work.
>
> After some edebug magic, I discovered that org has a feature that lets
> you append property values! (Not the best way to discover a great
> feature, I must say! :-)
>
> The fix could either be a documentation fix. (I would've tried using
> cpp instead of C++, if I knew that was supported). But, this would
> still have some users seeing things broken and then looking up docs or
> trying out the alternative.
>
> OR
>
> a "hacky" fix, (better for the users ?), could be to consider KEY+ to
> be indicating appending, but KEY++ to not.  Thoughts?

I prefer the former. Forbidding to end properties with "+" (unless we
are appending a value) is, IMO, a bearable restriction.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou