Re: [O] [PATCH 1/3] ob-table: Fix org-sbe's handling of quotes in arguments

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Vladimir Panteleev <address@hidden> writes:

> Ah! Well, thanks for the clarification, and apologies for the
> confusion.

Well, thanks for bearing with me.

>> I consider it to be a bug if you need to write $"string" instead of
>> "string" in any `org-sbe' call. We should not test such a mis-feature,
>> which should be removed.
>
> Agreed completely, but, wouldn't this be a breaking change? So far
> I've tried to avoid breaking any meaningful existing uses of org-sbe.

We probably need to break `org-sbe' so as to improve it. In particular,
its syntax ought to evolve, as you pointed out. However, such changes
would obviously go into master branch, not in maint.

> No problem. To clarify, would you prefer tests which still use
> $-prefixing, but with a table cell reference to get the value in the
> cell (i.e. $$2), or tests which do not use $-prefixing in order to
> interpret the string in the table cell as a reference to another block
> in the org-mode document?

At the moment, both are features described in `org-sbe' docstring, so
I think they should be both tested, if appropriate. However, I had the
former in mind when I suggested to change tests; the latter sounds very
much like over-engineering.