Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> 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? >
I think you mean [1] and [3] in the above, and I agree, these could easily be the same term and "name" has a nice generality to it. Although it is unintuitive in the case of un-named data, e.g., #+name: | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | looks weird to me. > > - Case [3] : I like "call". "lob" is too cryptic. > assuming you mean [2] above, I think call is emerging as the clear winner in this case. > >> 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. > Noted, Thanks for the input -- Eric > > Regards, > > [1] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 1 > > [2] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 3 > > [3] DEFINITION NOT FOUND: 2 -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
