Re: [O] [BUG] Noweb reference eval syntax does not work

[Charles C. Berry]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Karsten Schmidt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> sorry for coming in super late to this thread, but I'd like to make a
> plea to *not* deprecate the :noweb-ref header arg.
>
> On 12 May 2016 at 19:35:15, Aaron Ecay wrote:
>
> > To put it another way: it seems to me that the functionality of
> > :noweb-ref can be reimplemented in terms of other primitives.


Maybe you should respond to Nicolas' last posting in this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-05/msg00263.html

However, it doesn't look like :noweb-ref functionality is going away, but 
it may be shifted to require a noweb reference *evaluation* of a src block 
or lob block or maybe an idiom that looks like such (with the reference 
name as an argument) to invoke it. When that change occurs, I expect that 
a replace-regexp would be enough to update a file that uses :noweb-ref.

If you want to get ahead of that change, you can probably assume that 
:noweb-ref headers will continue to exist and roll your own src block to 
handle the invocation. `(org-babel-map-src-blocks nil BODY)' with a 
suitably tooled BODY seems like it would be enough. See the docstring.

If you require chained *evaluation* (including the _results_ of chained 
src blocks rather than just the src block bodies), you might show an 
example. So far, there hasn't been much concern that chained *evaluation* 
is useful. But it can be supported via the lob/src block gambit and you 
might get some tips on how to implement that or maybe convince someone to 
create a lob block that handles your case.

HTH,

Chuck