Re: # or not before a value

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson escreveu:
> In most situations, the hash sign is optional but can be added without
> chaning anythin. Unfortunately, the manual is a bit inconsequent,
> for historical reasons. The hash sign indicates that the value should
> be interpreted as within the Scheme language, but as I said, this is
> normally done anyway.
> In your specific examples, though, it seems that you cannot add a
> hash sign in the first case (since the construct "2.0\cm" is specific
> to LilyPond) and you cannot remove it in the second case (probably

I've been tempted a few times to strip this feature, actually, in
favor of the schemish

  #(* cm 2)

or

  #(2 cm)
  
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