Marko Schuetz-Schmuck <markoschu...@web.de> writes: > I would find it useful to have a more declarative way for specifying > sequence. I imagine e.g. using "#+REQUIRES:" and "#+PROVIDES:" to > capture dependency and then have the exporter compute a sequence > satisfying these.
I would say that declaring an explicit ordering of blocks via noweb is quite declarative. The tensions seems more to be between implicit and explicit ordering. I'm quite a fan of letting the computer compute things, but in the context of literate programming I tend to prefer explicit over implicit. IMHO that's the main point of literate programming: Be more explicit and document all the details. Try not to hide important aspects. If you have so many blocks that maintaining the order of the concatenation seems like a burden and tiresome I would argue that you are doing it wrong. Because in the end you need quite a good understanding of the final order of the blocks or else maintaining the implicit order via require/provide will also get out of hand. I also second Tims concerns about the additional complexity and feature creep. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
