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Re: preliminary GLISS discussions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: preliminary GLISS discussions |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:01:17 +0200 |
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Vectors don't make sense unless you give a mechanism to map/iterate
>>> over them, ie something along the lines of
>>>
>>> (make-parallel-music (vector->list
>>> (map (lambda (x) (add-new-context "Staff" x)) violin)))
>>
>> It would be easy enough to let $@ work on arbitrary sequences, not just
>> lists. You can already write things like
>>
>> << $@(map ...) >>
>>
>> How many people are asking for \violin2 all the time?
>
> How many people of these are asking for a O(1) indexed access
> container? I think most people just want to write "2" instead of
> "Two". I don't see how a person asking for \violin2 is asking for
> arrays. Most compositions don't have more than 2 violin voices anyway.
>
> I am actually supportive of allowing digits in identifiers, it has
> irked me for years that we could not get it to work.
It is easy enough to get to work. It just comes at a cost.
> I vaguely recall you implemented this in 2.16 already, but I guess I
> am mistaken?
You are.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, (continued)
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Graham Percival, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Keith OHara, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/09/01
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Graham Percival, 2012/09/01