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)

[Tim Cross]

Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> Treating src blocks missing a lang as paragraphs is
> incorrect because according to the syntax spec they
> are syntactically still blocks (greater or lesser depending
> on your inclinations).
>
> I think the general principle we want to follow here is
> that a block (or any entity in general) should not lose
> its type because some part of its syntax is malformed
> (I have made similar arguments about property drawers).
>

I think you might be right here.

The big characteristic of source blocks and example blocks which make
them different from paragraphs is the line breaks and indentation. If
they are treated as paragraphs, won't this information be lost?