Mike Solomon writes:
>> On 24 Sep 2015, at 13:18, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
>>
>>> IIRC, it was introduced to compose offset callbacks,
>>
>> Oh, it's still being used for that as far as I can tell. Just not from
>> Scheme.
>
> I think before lambdas were widely us
> On 24 Sep 2015, at 13:18, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
>
>> IIRC, it was introduced to compose offset callbacks,
>
> Oh, it's still being used for that as far as I can tell. Just not from
> Scheme.
I think before lambdas were widely used they made lots of sense. I us
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> IIRC, it was introduced to compose offset callbacks,
Oh, it's still being used for that as far as I can tell. Just not from
Scheme.
> but a quick check doesn't reveal any historical uses.
The last Scheme use of chain-grob-member-functions was likely removed
with
co
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> IIRC, it was introduced to compose offset callbacks, but a quick check
> doesn't reveal any historical uses. It doesn't strike me especially
> inscrutable, but if you can make it go away, it's probably for the
> best.
Well, it's like some sort of lambda for grob proper
2015-09-24 11:10 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup :
>
> ly:make-simple-closure is a powerful tool that can be used for doing a
> lot of things in connection with callbacks. It is also utterly
> inscrutable and seriously underdocumented and it does not help that
> nobody ever bothered defining a macro prepr
IIRC, it was introduced to compose offset callbacks, but a quick check
doesn't reveal any historical uses. It doesn't strike me especially
inscrutable, but if you can make it go away, it's probably for the
best.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:10 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> ly:make-simple-closure is
ly:make-simple-closure is a powerful tool that can be used for doing a
lot of things in connection with callbacks. It is also utterly
inscrutable and seriously underdocumented and it does not help that
nobody ever bothered defining a macro preprocessing its input which
would have obviated the nee
