I don't have a strong opinion on this. My sense is if you get a table it is fine, if not, you should get a string. Most important to me is no error. Of second importance is usability of the result.
If I add this after the block, it works as expected for me, so the current behavior seems ok to me. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var d=foo :results code d #+END_SRC I am not actually sure if a string is usable, without a read statement for emacs-lisp. Nicolas Goaziou writes: > John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >> Fabulous! Thanks! > > BTW, > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > '((a (b))) > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: foo > | a | (b) | > > Shouldn't we also return lists deeper than 2 levels as strings? Does it > even make sense to try formatting them into a table? > > Regards, -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
