Aloha.
I kind of suspected that this was a Scheme-ism but didn't dig into it
(yet). I used to progam Lisp but know nothing about Scheme. Perhaps
it's so fundamental to the Core group that it's 'duh' but that's not the
case for the rest of us (me).
Of course, booleans would be fundamental but I tend to interpret
<special char>alpha as a kind of macro command. So it didn't occur to
me that it would be be a boolean value.
Mahalo for the follow-up. Appreciate your effort.
J.
On 1/8/24 20:38, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
It's true that special characters can cause inconsistent results in
almost anything but if you're searching Documentation for a command
that includes them, you expect the search to be 'complete'; i.e.,
encompassing all possibities.
The thing is that `#f` and `#t` are nothing special; they are part of
Scheme, and you learn them in lesson one, so to say. However, the
Notation Reference isn't an introduction to Scheme, thus it is not
feasible to really document such fundamental elements.
Anyway, I've added index entries to the Notation Reference and the
Learning Manual for `#f` and `#t`.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2230__;!!Mih3wA!CSSDx3tfKA07_Dlu8t6PXaus9A1ynPmgQGAVCwFoDwZzdvyQeDoGSu3fi_l64xhgEd7AFwg$
Werner
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