I think you want:
#+name: my-random-gen #+header: :var n=0 :var lim=0 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (loop repeat n collect (random* lim)) #+END_SRC and this various versions of this #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var results=my-random-gen(n=5, lim=1.0) results #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: | 0.27765703201293945 | 0.7524830102920532 | 0.854852557182312 | 0.22202050685882568 | 0.604256272315979 | John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 12:11 PM Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought I understood "metaprogramming," i.e., creating generic code > blocks that can be called by any other code block regardless of programming > language -- but apparently I don't. I have this > > #+name: my-random-gen > #+header: :var n=0 :var lim=0 > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (loop repeat n collect (random* lim)) > #+END_SRC > > and I have the variables initialized to zero. But now I don't know how to > call it with another code block. I've tried various versions of this > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > my-random-gen(5 1.0) > #+END_SRC > > and this various versions of this > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var results=my-random-gen() :var n=5 :var lim=1.0 > results > #+END_SRC > > to no avail. What am I missing? How can I actually use, call my-random-gen > in other code blocks? > > LB > > >
