Re: Issue 1110 in lilypond: Wrong octave of repetition chord with \relative and #{ #} syntax

[lilypond]

Comment #14 on issue 1110 by address@hidden: Wrong octave of repetition  
chord with \relative and #{ #} syntax
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1110

Maybe I'm naïve, but shouldn't q be processed much earlier?  What we really  
want IMHO is a shorthand at the input level to spare a lot of typing; thus

  <a c e'> q

should be equal to typing

  <a c e'> <a c e'>    ,

and as soon as a new <...> is seen, this new chord used as the subsitution  
for q.

Consequently I wonder whether handling of q can't be done by the lexer (or  
parser?  I always mix this up :-).  Maybe such an implementation would be  
really dumb, but I think that too much cleverness with \relative causes  
more headaches than necessary...