Re: [Geiser-users] elisp-like "function"-ality in org-mode?

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Mon, Feb 27 2017, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:

> Here's a code block in org-mode:
>
> #+name:myflatten1
> #+begin_src scheme :session f1 
> (define (flatten sexpr)
>   (let loop ((sexpr sexpr)
>              (res '()))
>              (format #t "sexpr: ~s; res: ~s\n" sexpr res)
>     (cond
>      ((null? sexpr) res)
>      ((pair? sexpr)
>       (append (flatten (car sexpr)) (flatten (cdr sexpr))))
>      (else
>       (cons sexpr res)))))
> #+end_src
>
> Now, had I done this in elisp I'd be able to call it somewhere else in
> my org-mode world by its babel code-block name -- and throw in lots of
> other variables and such and then activate/call it in a REPL session 
> outside of another Scheme function. AFAIK, only elisp has this ability
> in org-mode. It may seem a minor thing, but it adds a new level of
> meta/modular, IMHO. For example, the org-mode literal programming
> paradigm is a real improvement (again IMHO) over traditional "tangle,"
> especially if you don't have to pull all the code out and deal with it
> separately. You can call up code blocks on the fly. Could geiser learn
> to do this elisp trick?

Hmm, i'm not sure if this is what you mean, but org extras already comes
with ob-scheme.el which features some integration with geiser:

http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/plain/lisp/ob-scheme.el

Cheers,
jao
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