"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: > Hi Torsten, > > Torsten Wagner wrote: >> I tend to #+results: because it fits more to the entire babel syntax. >> However, earlier on the mailing list people were pointing out that one >> is going to change "results" for a unknown source block (that was the >> reason "data" was introduced).... and I think this is a valid >> argument. Maybe "data" and "results" should be both valid if only to >> pleasure human thinking. However, if I understood correctly, maybe >> data could be changed to be more some type of constant? That is, >> #+data: foo can not be changed by a source code block named foo >> (because it isn't a "result" but "data") but only by human (as a >> "data" input). Does this make sense? > > Yes, #+results are automatically generated by execution of some code. > > But, if you want to start with something, not generated, you had to insert > yourself a #+results block until the more logical #+data had been introduced. > > I like your explanation about the fact that such a manually-entered block is > "constant". >
I like "constant" too, but the goals is to remove synonyms, not add them. :) Thanks -- Eric > > Best regards, > Seb -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
