Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes:
> On 17.02.2016 13:27, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham King<[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> \book {
>>> music = \relative { c' d e f }
>>> \score {
>>> \music
>>> }
>>> }
>> The problem is that it would likely be possible to teach LilyPond's
>> parser to accept the latter, but due to book not having a scope of its
>> own for music expressions, it would be perfectly equivalent to the
>> first: any such assignment would change "music" globally.
>
> A possibility to define variables (in proper LilyPond syntax) inside
> of \book or \bookpart environments would be really great to have, in
> order to simplify working with large projects, many includes and
> different target editions. I don’t think that not having a proper
> scope for each book/bookpart is a problem.
I think it is.
> So I’d vote for this change.
I vote against it. It does not make sense that when I write
mybook =
\book {
zap = 3
...
}
that at the time mybook is actually being interpreted, zap might have a
completely different value.
If you want to make global assignments, make global assignments.
--
David Kastrup
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