Re: why recommend \relative to take a "c"?

[Valentin Villenave]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> But that's why it's in the parser; you can't have music functions with
> optional arguments (and I doubt that's going to change any time soon).

Hm, I forgot about that. We already encountered the same problem when
Reinhold rewrote the \tempo command, for instance.
*sigh* This is one of those limitations that make me want to bang my
head against a wall. Do you think this could deserve a feature request
on the tracker?

> I'm sure it's negligible (if you can wait about ten minutes I'll check
> and report back), since all the work would be done by an exported
> function which is a wrapper for to_relative_octave ().

Well, it's past two hours now so I guess it *does* affect speed after all :)

Cheers,
Valentin