On 10/01/2026 11:10 pm, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
Maybe simply identity? (although it feels long)
I would avoid `eval' besides cases where it is strictly necessary. That
is why I think `identity' or its shorter alias limited to template
expansion will be better.
Why? %(...) is passed through org-eval anyway.
I believe, we should not encourage unnecessary calls of `eval' by using
it in docs. Users may add this dangerous function to their code just
because they see it too often.
I would be ok with that, if there were better short alternative.
But it does not look like there is. So, I will leave it be eval.
From my point of view, `or' is shorter and it is not worse than `eval'.
They just have different downsides.
