Re: [O] Literate Programming - Continue a Source Block?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Eric and Neeum,

Eric Schulte wrote:
>> Overwriting is still not supported, but I don't know if that's all that
>> important (I don't have an immediate need for it). And noweb by default
>> did not have it either, so perhaps it's not needed for most tasks
>
> This was my thinking.
>
>> (OTOH, you may want to think about what the best solution is if later
>> on you decide to add overwriting capability).
>
> If someone finds a real need for overwriting code blocks, hopefully the
> specifics of their need will point towards an implementation.

The only case that pops up to my mind now, of such a use case where
overwriting could be "needed" (well, let's say useful) is for some pedagogical
document that one would write, where code is constructed from a simplistic
(and buggy) approach to a correct one.

One could say: the code to do that is this one, and show the block contents.

Then, discover problems to it, explain them in the document, and make a new
version of the block with the same name (for tangling reasons).

Then, highlight some limitations of the new code, fix them in a new block with
the same name, etc.

Does that mean it needs to be implemented?  Up to you...

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban