Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > Yes, I noticed that - it would be good to make all functions operating > on arguments be verbs; similarly, \times could be renamed to something > more verby.
Guess what the current proposal is, I think I heard \tuplet (ugh). >> Wouldn't it be helpful if from the syntax one could tell functions >> from postfix operators simple statements? In most languages function >> invocations are easy to spot. I think in Perl you can have functions >> look like dead statements, but that's probably just making the argument >> better. > > <offtopic>I find it interesting that you are giving Perl while we are > discussing readability.</offtopic> Ah, I was unclear. Right. LilyPond stands out /together/ with Perl in unreadability; these are the only two languages I know that can have functions look like statements. I was arguing how nice it would be if we could move away from that [similarity]. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.nl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
