On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Sebastien Vauban < wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> wrote:
> Hi Rainer, > > Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> > * appending to a file-wide property > >> > :PROPERTIES: > >> > :var+: , baz=3 > >> > :END: > >> > >> To be honest, the only thing that I dislike is the comma in the above > line. > >> Not intuitive at all. Quite hard to read. > >> > >> Can't the comma be implicitly added by the `+' after the property name? > > > > On the one hand, it might have one additional advantage: > > > > #+property: var foo="This is a very long text" > > #+property: var+ "with even more." > > I don't think such a construction would be tolerated. I guess you must > write > a var name (foo, bar, baz, ...) after the `var+' keyword. > > > Would foo be: > > "This is a very long text with even more" > > To be accurate, it would have become: > > "This is a very long textwith even more" > > if such a concatenation would be implied. > Correct - missing space. > > > Could one make the "," implicit, if the value follows the > > > > x=y > > > > style, while otherwise just concatenate the value to the one before? > > I guess this is going too far, as Babel is untyped: what about... > > #+property: var foo=2 > #+property: var+ 5 > > Does foo become equal to 25? > > (I know I exaggerate somehow, but just to show I guess such extensions are > simply not possible without explicit types). > > You definitely have a point here - so I opt for the implicit "," Cheers, Rainer But, if not equal to 25, what would be expected? An error, ...? > > Best regards, > Seb > > -- > Sebastien Vauban > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
