On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Sebastien Vauban
<address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Rainer,
Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> > * appending to a file-wide property
>> > :PROPERTIES:
>> > :var+: , baz=3
>> > :END:
>>
>> To be honest, the only thing that I dislike is the comma in the above line.
>> Not intuitive at all. Quite hard to read.
>>
>> Can't the comma be implicitly added by the `+' after the property name?
>
> On the one hand, it might have one additional advantage:
>
> #+property: var foo="This is a very long text"
> #+property: var+ "with even more."
I don't think such a construction would be tolerated. I guess you must write
a var name (foo, bar, baz, ...) after the `var+' keyword.
> Would foo be:
> "This is a very long text with even more"
To be accurate, it would have become:
"This is a very long textwith even more"
if such a concatenation would be implied.
Correct - missing space.
> Could one make the "," implicit, if the value follows the
>
> x=y
>
> style, while otherwise just concatenate the value to the one before?
I guess this is going too far, as Babel is untyped: what about...
#+property: var foo=2
#+property: var+ 5
Does foo become equal to 25?
(I know I exaggerate somehow, but just to show I guess such extensions are
simply not possible without explicit types).
You definitely have a point here - so I opt for the implicit ","
Cheers,
Rainer
But, if not equal to 25, what would be expected? An error, ...?
Best regards,
Seb
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Sebastien Vauban