Re: [Syntax discussion] Should we treat src blocks without LANG as paragraphs? (was: [BUG] ox-html does not export captions of source blocks without language)

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:32 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Johan Bolmsjö <org-mode@johan.bitmaster.se> writes:
>
> > #+caption: Caption 1
> > #+begin_src
> > foo bar baz
> > #+end_src
>
> There is an inconsistency here between Org parser and
> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html + manual.
>
> The actual parser does allow empty lang in src blocks, setting :lang
> element property to nil.



Should we stop doing this and treat such src
> blocks as paragraphs?


I think that this would cause more of a surprise to the user when something
in a source block exports as a plain paragraph instead of in a <pre> block
(for HTML exports).

Or should we allow empty lang and instead adapt
> the exporters to treat empty lang correctly?
>

I vote for this one. Then

#+begin_src
foo
#+end_src

will be analogous to this in Markdown:

```
foo
```

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