From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks"
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:06:48 +0100 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Sebastien Vauban <
wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
> >> > * appending to a file-wide property
> >> > :PROPERTIES:
> >> > :var+: , baz=3
> >> > :END:
> >>
> >> To be honest, the only thing that I dislike is the comma in the above
> line.
> >> Not intuitive at all. Quite hard to read.
> >>
> >> Can't the comma be implicitly added by the `+' after the property name?
> >
> > On the one hand, it might have one additional advantage:
> >
> > #+property: var foo="This is a very long text"
> > #+property: var+ "with even more."
>
> I don't think such a construction would be tolerated. I guess you must
> write
> a var name (foo, bar, baz, ...) after the `var+' keyword.
>
> > Would foo be:
> > "This is a very long text with even more"
>
> To be accurate, it would have become:
>
> "This is a very long textwith even more"
>
> if such a concatenation would be implied.
>
Correct - missing space.
>
> > Could one make the "," implicit, if the value follows the
> >
> > x=y
> >
> > style, while otherwise just concatenate the value to the one before?
>
> I guess this is going too far, as Babel is untyped: what about...
>
> #+property: var foo=2
> #+property: var+ 5
>
> Does foo become equal to 25?
>
> (I know I exaggerate somehow, but just to show I guess such extensions are
> simply not possible without explicit types).
>
>
You definitely have a point here - so I opt for the implicit ","
Cheers,
Rainer
But, if not equal to 25, what would be expected? An error, ...?
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-31 19:06 About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks" Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-31 20:05 ` Eric Schulte
2011-10-31 20:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-31 21:30 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 8:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 14:36 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 15:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 16:58 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 17:48 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 19:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 19:45 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 20:22 ` Eric Schulte
2011-10-31 21:33 ` Christian Moe
2011-10-31 21:22 ` Christian Moe
2011-10-31 21:36 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 7:33 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-02 15:35 ` Bastien
2011-11-02 17:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-03 1:26 ` Bastien
2011-11-03 8:08 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-03 15:10 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-03 18:32 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 20:01 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-03 20:18 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 20:23 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-04 8:02 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-04 17:48 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-11-04 19:25 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-07 22:09 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-08 8:42 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 9:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 10:06 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2011-11-08 14:42 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-11-08 15:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 16:03 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-08 22:53 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 8:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-09 16:12 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 17:18 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-09 22:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-15 12:33 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-15 16:00 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 16:37 ` Torsten Wagner
2011-11-15 16:56 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 17:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-11-15 18:22 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 17:24 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:41 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 9:44 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 16:01 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-02 21:05 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-02 21:21 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-03 1:42 ` Bastien
2011-11-03 8:19 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-03 18:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 18:59 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 17:40 ` Samuel Wales
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