Re: [O] [babel] Bugs for Emacs Lisp code blocks

[Eric Schulte]

"Sebastien Vauban" <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric,
>
> Eric Schulte wrote:
>>>> What is still unclear to me as well, is why =()= and =nil= aren't the same
>>>> from Babel's point of view?
>>>
>>> However, I think I understood this one: it is because nil is interpreted as 
>>> a
>>> string, not as the empty list; right?
>>>
>>> That's because strings aren't quoted, right?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Apart from the automatic (and, maybe, sometimes unwished) coercion of a symbol
> into a string (case of `nil'), are you aware of other tricky stuff?
>
> For my own understanding, why didn't we force the user to quote all strings,
> and avoid the above problem?
>

We have to consider named blocks or data as well as strings and Emacs
Lisp.

>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

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