Re: [RFC/PATCH] naming src/bin files in ob-C.el

[Ihor Radchenko]

Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:

> Ok, stopping after 1 seems reasonable when the code block is meant to
> produce just the executable. But, your suggestion would mean that the
> code block can *only* produce an executable file. Maybe that is ok, but
> since the current semantics allow something like
>
> #+begin_src C++ :includes <iostream> <fstream> :results file :file 
> ./results.csv
>   using namespace std;
>   for(int i=0; i<10; i++){ cout << i << "," << i*i << endl; }
> #+end_src
>
> so I am not sure that we should break that.

Fair point.

> On the other hand, I don't see any sense in producing a link to the
> binary file. Org can't do anything with that link, so the user would
> need to write something like ":results file :file /path/to :wrap
> comment". That is why I would prefer something like a :bin-file header.

I am not sure how I feel about such side effects of evaluation.
Is there any other babel backend that is doing something similar?

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