Would it be useful to begin integrating into babel functions so to serialize lisp objects (just as prin1-to-string) in other languages?
I’ve read some babel files trying to do that, independently of each others (that’s a lot of similar `typecase's (seeing it I’m regretting each type-spec in it can’t be a list of types) …when authors even think about using typecase instead of just `cond' or `if's): for instance Fortran, so that to declare variables given as arguments to its source blocks. imho, that may be of some use for other languages. It may be useful as well for stuff outside of org-mode: e.g. iirc Pymacs serialize/deserialize (read and print (and also eval, but not loop x))) to allow the gateway between elisp and python and making each one libraries available to the other. That must be (really partially) redundant with python babel. And so on. I don’t know well-enough enough languages to begin doing it right away, and I might try to do only for scheme, ocaml and C then, so just throwing the idea here. Moreafter: deserialization might come handy as well, as if trying to factorize between serialization and deserialization, this might as well some sort of lower grammar or anyway easier to read, extend and debug form of specifying the translation. And then when a source block outputs results, having a deserialization function might help to get consistent output which then may be processed to make, for instance, org-tables (though I know currently to do this it’s pretty imperative and edition-oriented, rather than functional like this approach does suggest).