Ihor Radchenko writes: >> In section 16.4 (Environment of a Code Block) >> >> A simple named list. >> >> #+NAME: example-list >> - simple >> - not >> - nested >> - list >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var x=example-list >> (print x) >> #+END_SRC >> >> #+RESULTS: >> | simple | list | >> >> But if I evaluate the code, I get >> >> #+RESULTS: >> | simple | (unordered (not) (nested)) | >> | list | | > > Confirmed. Need to look into this. The attached is a fix for this discrepancy with the manual. However, it looks like at least ob-java already tried to work around the erroneous return value of org-babel-read-list. Hence, we at least need to announce this fix in ORG-NEWS. Or maybe there are other objections?