Re: [O] Org-mode as a metalanguage: calling SQL "functions"

[Sebastien Vauban]

Eric,

Eric Schulte wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Eric Schulte wrote:
>>>>> At this point I'm not sure if the documentation or the code should be
>>>>> amended.  I've personally never liked the args-in-block-name syntax, but
>>>>> I don't recall if we formally decided to abandon it, or if it has simply
>>>>> been broken in a recent commit.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if I have any say here, but I agree that the args in
>>>> name notation looks not as good and might be considered for
>>>> abolishment.
>>>
>>> Great, I agree wholeheartedly and I'll update the documentation
>>> accordingly (and take a look at lob-ingest to ensure it no longer uses
>>> this var-in-name style).
>>
>> I confirm that, following a discussion we had, you had decided to drop the
>> alternate syntax, a couple of months ago (more than 2 ;-)).
>
> Great, so I'm not imagining things.  Thanks Seb.

For the sake of clarity, it all began (in September 2011) with the fact it was
more difficult to trap errors such as missing default value, in the
functional-syntax style. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/46888.

This also lead, a couple of weeks later (October 2011), to questionning the
multiple keywords used for code blocks, such as #+source: and #+srcname:. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/48399.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban