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Re: [O] [RFC] Standardized code block keywords


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [O] [RFC] Standardized code block keywords
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:22:38 +0200

Hello,

Eric Schulte <address@hidden> writes:

> There are currently a number of instances of synonymous keywords when
> dealing with code blocks, specifically.
>
>          named code blocks [1] -- "source" "srcname" "function"
> calling external functions [2] -- "call" "lob"
>                 named data [3] -- "tblname" "resname" "results" "data"
>

- Cases [1] and [2] : I'd suggest to drop all of them and to use "name",
  shared by both source code and data. Is it really different to name
  a source block or a list?

- Case [3] : I like "call". "lob" is too cryptic.

> Are there cases where we want to continue to allow synonyms (e.g., in
> named data so that "results" can be used for code block results but
> "data" can be used for hand-written data)?

No. One Keyword to name them all.

Regards,

[1] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 1

[2] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 3

[3] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 2

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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