Re: [lint] imagemagick

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Hi Nicolas,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>
>> I am not sure about the possible values, though.  babel header arguments
>> usually take 'yes' and 'no' as values for TRUE and FALSE.
>
> Which is, IMO, a mistake. Lisp has already some definition of TRUE and
> FALSE which is not language-centric.

I agree completely.

>
>> Examples are :tangle, :comments, etc. So, I have been using
>> ':imagemagick yes' until now.
>>
>> But on the other hand ':imagemagick no' is not doing the expected
>> thing.
>
> I looked at the source and every time, :imagemagick is treated as
> a boolean, so "yes" and "no" are equivalent to t.

Exactly.  I guess my implicit question was, whether we should aim to
make :imagemagick accept 'no' as nil to be consistent with the general
org babel conventions.

As I get it, you would say: no.

(The next question would be whether we live with inconsistency or
whether we should switch the other header arguments backward
incompatibly use t and nil as well...)

>
> At least, the declaration seems on par with the source.

Yes, thanks!

Andreas