Re: [Announcement] Org-babel initial release

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> writes:

>
> Was having a similar idea, as I language I'd love to use with this is
> my current fave clojure:
>
> http://clojure.org/
>

Everyone I talk to seems to love clojure, I need to find an excuse to
use it myself.

>
> It's a language based on the JVM and consequently being able to pass
> in command line options to the interpreter is important...  I'd
> imagine most of the time the source blocks within a single file would
> share the vast majority of environment settings too (for example
> setting the JVM's class path) so being able to specify these values to
> pass to the interpreter, once at the top of the file would be really
> nice.
>

This should be easily implemented using a new header argument (languages
are free to define new header arguments as they see fit).  For an
example of a language passing command line options through header
arguments, see the org-babel-ditaa.el file which defines a :cmdline
header argument allowing arguments to be passed to the ditaa command as
in the example below where the -r and -S options are passed to the ditaa
command.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+begin_src ditaa :file blue.png :cmdline -r -S
+---------+
| cBLU    |
|         |
|    +----+
|    |cPNK|
|    |    |
+----+----+
#+end_src
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Cheers -- Eric

>
> R.