"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:

> On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> It can be considered an error, since the docs say:
>>>
>>>  "...This is done with the ‘src’ block, where you also need to
>>> specify the name of the major mode that should be used to fontify
>>> the example..."
>>>
>>
>> I would vote that this be considered an error as a source block
>> doesn't make sense w/o a source language.  If others agree with this
>> interpretation, I would be happy to submit a patch which actively
>> raises an errors when this cases is encountered.
>>
>> Cheers -- Eric
>
> This seems like the right approach to me.
>
> Tom

As promised here's a patch which raises errors when source blocks don't
have a specified language.  I would prefer if the error could indicate
which block caused the problem, but I don't know how to accomplish this.

Best -- Eric