Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> writes: > Hi David, > >> But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the >> minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility. Nothing is >> in "harmonic minor." Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach could >> be terrifying. > > Oh, I totally agree with "terrifying" (and, in my opinion, unhelpful). =) > I’m just pointing out that it’s not difficult to figure out how to > make it work for people who don’t mind living in terror.
They come back to haunt you. Try removing some functionality when it becomes clear that it is broken by design and cannot possibly do what its hand-waving definition and implementation calls for, and receive all the flak for it. I had to fix repeat chords (which were not amenable to work under \relative or \transposition), nested property overrides (which were not designed to be able to distinguish overriding an encompassing alist from overriding a subproperty), embedded scheme code (which would not allow for closures and had weird syntax for admitting variables) and a few other things that had gained popularity while being inherently broken and in requirement of much more complex implementations. All because people think "it's not difficult to figure out how to make it work" when actually it is once you aim for more than a "mostly working" determination and keep shuffling around just which 10% you are willing to let fall apart. -- David Kastrup
