Hi Mark, Mark Edgington <edgi...@gmail.com> writes:
> What about it seems too much? Or put differently, what do you think would > be the negative effects of having something like this possible? One possible negative effect I can see is that users have to be extra careful what type of output such functions will produce, so that this output can be used by a summary type. > From my (obviously biased) point of view, making it available would mean > that the dynamic column view becomes much more flexible, and it would reduce > the need in the future for lots of new hard-coded features/functions to be > added to the related org-mode code. Instead, features can start out as > functions which people create and share, and if they become popular enough > among many people, they can be incorporated as a "built-in" feature that > comes with org-mode, or as a contributed module. Yes, I understand this, and my objection is not really technical: this is just a vague intuition of what traps users may fall in. But I'd say that we should try every other ways (like Babel, org-collector, etc.) before going down this road -- and someone will have to implement this anyway... but that's just not me :) (I don't want to close a door.) Best, -- Bastien
