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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:09:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vc7nevhb.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ehefe5kn.fsf@gmail.com

Eric,

Eric Schulte wrote:
>>> What is still unclear to me as well, is why =()= and =nil= aren't the same
>>> from Babel's point of view?
>>
>> However, I think I understood this one: it is because nil is interpreted as a
>> string, not as the empty list; right?
>>
>> That's because strings aren't quoted, right?
>
> Yes.

Apart from the automatic (and, maybe, sometimes unwished) coercion of a symbol
into a string (case of `nil'), are you aware of other tricky stuff?

For my own understanding, why didn't we force the user to quote all strings,
and avoid the above problem?

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-06 15:44 [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-07 13:29 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-07 15:47   ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-07 19:42     ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-08 20:14       ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-08 21:07         ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09  8:13           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:03             ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 13:46               ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-09 19:46       ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-10  7:54         ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:10           ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 14:09             ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2013-04-15 15:26               ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-12 22:09         ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 14:04           ` Sebastien Vauban

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