Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> writes: > On 2023-01-23 3:46 pm, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> I get the lack of utility of \repeat unfold (14 keystrokes) for >> short music >> expressions (like a single note). But I don't think that ** is >> intuitive >> enough to use it. >> If there were an alternative operator that would not mess up >> lookahead and >> would not suffer with the confusion between * and ** (people already >> think >> * does your proposed **), I could be convinced. > > Well, blame my email program, as it truncated my original post. I had > intended to fully call out that ** is exponentiation in some language, > thus might not be the best symbol.
Well, mathematically c**4 in some sense is the same as c c c c . Not saying that I find that compelling but it is some kind of argument. -- David Kastrup
