I use org-babel with [:noweb] argument for literate programming. But soon I find the macro functionality is absent in this system. For example, I have #+name: example #+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle yes :noweb yes dir = "~" Find.find(dir) do |path| if <> puts path end end #+END_SRC #+name: path is a file #+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle no :noweb yes FileTest.file?(path) #+END_SRC But with macro functionality, the program can be more flexible: #+name: example #+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle yes :noweb yes dir = "~" Find.find(dir) do |path| if <> puts path end end #+END_SRC #+name: is_a_file? #+BEGIN_SRC ruby :tangle no :noweb yes :noweb-macro file-path FileTest.file?(file-path) #+END_SRC In [is_a_file?] block, I use argument [:noweb-macro] to indicate this block is a macro with one argument. When expanding block [example], <> will be expanded to [FileTest.file?(path)]. As a result, The src-block [is_a_file?] achieves better abstraction. I have tried native macro replacement of org({{{is_a_file?(path)}}}), but it doesn't work well in src-block. So, is this feature valuable?