Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Hm? Scheme, C, C++, awk, Lua... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
