Re: LilyPond strings and \markup

[Neil Puttock]

2009/8/16 Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:

> I suspect this is because LilyPond treats "foo" and #"foo" the same in
> this isolated context.

I think that's correct: all strings are stored as scheme objects since
it simplifies memory allocation (they don't have to be deleted at the
end of their life thanks to Guile's automatic garbage collection), so
internally there's no difference between the two identifiers.

Regards,
Neil