On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:51:54AM +0000, Phil Taylor wrote:
> >While going through Jack's Embro... CD, I noticed that iabc will accept this:
> >
> >(abc)>d
> >but chokes on this:
> >(abc>)d
> >
> >I guess the thinking is that the '>' goes with the next thing, but the ')'
> >goes with the previous thing. The latter to me would be equivalent to:
> >abc_)d
> >
> >which is clearly wrong, since the flat goes with the 'd' but the ')' goes
> >with the 'c'.
> >
> >Does anything written specify which way this is supposed to work?
>
> The standard doesn't specify, so either is correct. The > and < symbols
> belong equally to the two notes on either side, unlike the flat symbol.
>
> You get a similar situation with grace notes, so abc{g}>d and abc>{g}d
> are equivalent to one another.
Except in which of them causes errors in which program.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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