Re: [Syntax discussion] Should we treat src blocks without LANG as paragraphs? (was: [BUG] ox-html does not export captions of source blocks without language)

[Timothy]

Hi Ihor,

> There is an inconsistency here between Org parser and
> <https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html> + manual.
>
> The actual parser does allow empty lang in src blocks, setting :lang
> element property to nil. Should we stop doing this and treat such src
> blocks as paragraphs? Or should we allow empty lang and instead adapt
> the exporters to treat empty lang correctly?

My 2c: a nil lang seems like the “less wrong” option.

All the best,
Timothy

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