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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:26:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo9fhl0c.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86vc7nevhb.fsf@somewhere.org

"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> 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?
>

We have to consider named blocks or data as well as strings and Emacs
Lisp.

>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 15:28 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
2013-04-15 15:26               ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-04-12 22:09         ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 14:04           ` Sebastien Vauban

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