Is babel just ... unstable at the moment?

Is babel just ... unstable at the moment?

[Allen S. Rout]

So I keep running into very strange babel behaviors.

In addition to the whacked-out rendering oddities I've been posting 
about,  I've just executed a static R block a half dozen times and 
gotten three or four different results blocks.   I'm not going to try to 
minimal-example this one, it seems too timing sensitive to be worth 
attempting replication.

I'm using the blocks-calling-other-blocks behavior rather heavily, and 
the variation seems to be that, on some calls, output from dependencies 
is just getting pasted into the output from the dependant block.

Worse, there was one occasion on which it seems I got an output line 
from 'last'  C-c C-c  in 'this' run's output block.

I've been seeing comments about changes to the babel block formats 
recently, so it's perhaps plausible that git HEAD just isn't stable. 
Should I back off?


- Allen S. Rout

Re: Is babel just ... unstable at the moment?

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Allen,

I think what you are experiencing is the lack of previous heavy usage of
inline call lines -- especially with multiple such calls on the same
line.  You've discovered a couple of edge cases and you seem to have a
knack for coming up with pernicious examples.

Please do keep these sorts of error reports coming, as I would like to
fix any such errors in the code.

Thanks,

"Allen S. Rout" <asr@ufl.edu> writes:

> So I keep running into very strange babel behaviors.
>
> In addition to the whacked-out rendering oddities I've been posting
> about,  I've just executed a static R block a half dozen times and
> gotten three or four different results blocks.   I'm not going to try
> to minimal-example this one, it seems too timing sensitive to be worth
> attempting replication.
>
> I'm using the blocks-calling-other-blocks behavior rather heavily, and
> the variation seems to be that, on some calls, output from
> dependencies is just getting pasted into the output from the dependant
> block.
>
> Worse, there was one occasion on which it seems I got an output line
> from 'last'  C-c C-c  in 'this' run's output block.
>
> I've been seeing comments about changes to the babel block formats
> recently, so it's perhaps plausible that git HEAD just isn't
> stable. Should I back off?
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
>
>
>
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

Re: Is babel just ... unstable at the moment?

[Allen S. Rout]

On 03/01/2012 03:19 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> [...] You've discovered a couple of edge cases and you seem to have a
> knack for coming up with pernicious examples.
>

Why sir, I blush!   *fans self*

I just proudly repeated this comment to my co-workers.  One of them 
commented "They seem to know you!". :)

- Allen S. Rout