Re: [PATCH 1/3] ob-table: Fix org-sbe's handling of quotes in arguments

[Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 2018-03-12 23:15, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> The dollar character looks strange. What syntax is that?

I agree that it is strange. I mentioned it (and its strangeness) in the 
cover-letter. The documentation of org-sbe describes it as well.

>> +#+name: identity
>> +#+begin_src emacs-lisp :eval yes
>> +  x
>> +#+end_src"
>> +    (should (equal "a\"b\"c"
>> +		   (eval '(org-sbe identity (x $ "a\"b\"c")))))))
> 
> Why `eval'? Why not simply (org-sbe identity (x ...)) ?

Ah, I guess that's another "funny" thing about org-sbe that I forgot to 
mention. It is a macro, but it does some things that are rather 
non-macro-y. In this case, eval is required, otherwise it will attempt 
to parse the Org document during Lisp *compilation*, and you will see:

Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Reference ‘identity’ not found in 
this buffer")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Reference ‘identity’ not found in 
this buffer")
Reference ‘identity’ not found in this buffer

-- 
Best regards,
  Vladimir