On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:39:52PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes:
> > I think we need to decide what direction we want the syntax to > > move in (or indeed, decide not to change the syntax at all!). > > I don't see the point in the repeated threats of locking me out from > what I am working on. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of these discussions. The intent is to share ideas, not to bring forward formal proposals for language modifications. > > Yes, of course a shared project would be much easier with a > > benevolent dictator. > > The only alternative I see so far is a benevolent slave. Nobody is > working on syntax right now except me. And nobody is interested in > working on it except me. Instead people are interested in telling me > what I should be doing. You are not a slave. Nobody is telling you what you should be doing. Nobody is demanding that you take these discussions seriously -- in fact, I have repeatedly told you *not* to take them seriously! > > However, other than a few specific instances (such as the stable/2.16 > > branch), I don't think that we *want* benevolent dictators. A number > > of people want to discuss syntax possibilities. > > Where is the point in blind people voting on the color of the sky? We're not voting. We *won't* be voting. Besides, we haven't even seen a single serious proposal yet! (other than ideas from you and Han-Wen, maybe. Although I seriously think that ligature should be placed the same way as slurs and beams, I have not yet submitted a formal proposal to this effect.) > > Most of those other ideas > > are unworkable, but until we examine each idea, we won't know if it is > > actually workable or not. > > Wrong. Until _I_ examine each idea, you won't know if it is actually > workable or not. Most of the ideas are unworkable from the standpoint of unambiguous notation of music. If a human can't understand what the syntax means, then of course a computer can't understand it! - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel