Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> writes:
> David Kastrup writes:
>
>> What issues were raised?
>
> Janek and Graham raised the `what is a music function / let's make
> everything postfix' issue.
That's rather vague as an issue description. Sort of the "What is a
preposition / let's make everything a case" issue converting modern
English into Protoindoeuropean. The answer "try learning your grammar
before replacing it by something even more complex" is sort of
inevitable.
> Han-Wen raised the issue of [nameless] optional arguments.
>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>> \relative { a \parenthesize b c }
>>>
>>> we could have something* like
>>>
>>> (relative { a (parenthesize b) c })
>>> relative ({a parenthesize (b) c})
>>>
>>> I don't think there are easy ways to combine or drop ( and }, ie have
>>> something like
>>>
>>> {relative a b c}
>>> foo = relative
>>> {foo a b c}
>>>
>>> Or the C-style equivalents.
>>
>> Who do we think to be doing a favor with that?
>
> Well, that's the question. This is also a good chance to, ahum,
> once and for all decide on leaving things as they are.
I repeat myself: as long as "as they are" is not obeying a documented
and coherent definition, that's rather pointless as well.
The conservative approach is rather moving towards a consistent state
from the current starting point in the least damaging manner.
--
David Kastrup
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