Excellent --- I'm glad that the interaction with emacs-lisp is straightened
out!

I've been continuing working with source blocks and the same problem seems
to be present with clojure interaction.

#+begin_src clojure :exports both :results scalar
(ns whatever)
(defn works? [] true)
#+end_src

#+results:
| function | whatever/works? |


The clojure repl would normally output the text

"#'whatever/works?"

but this is being converted into an org-mode table, ignoring the :results
scalar declaration.

futrhermore, the same test with emacs-lisp also fails as in this example


#+begin_src clojure :results scalar
'(1 2 3)
#+end_src

#+results:
| 1 | 2 | 3 |

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


also, although :results scalar still works,  :results verbatim does not work
quite yet for emacs-lisp

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results scalar
;;(debug t nil)
'(1 2 3)
#+end_src

#+results:
: (1 2 3)


#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results verbatim
;;(debug t nil)
'(1 2 3)
#+end_src

#+results:
| 1 | 2 | 3 |



M-x org-version returns:
Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.414.g56de5.dirty)


Thank you so much for your prompt attention to my last comments!

sincerely,
--Robert McIntyre


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.  The emacs-lisp interaction is so simple
> we apparently never implemented checks which are routine in other
> languages.  I just pushed up a fix to the git repository so the
> ":results scalar" header argument combination should now be respected
> for emacs-lisp.
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
> Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> writes:
>
> > hi --- I'm working through the org manual and have run into a strange
> > problem with ":results scalar"
> >
> > M-x org-version gives "Org-mode version 7.5
> (release_7.5.288.gcec8.dirty)".
> >
> > I've made a code block using #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results scalar,
> > with the source just being '(1 2 3), but I get back an org-table
> > instead of the expected : (1 2 3). what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > a minimal example file can be found here:
> >  https://gist.github.com/1034648
> >
> > I also get the same thing when trying the stable Org-mode version 7.5.
> >
> > sincerely,
> > --Robert McIntyre
> >
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>