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Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y"
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Graham Percival |
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Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y" |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:26:43 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:23:43PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Take a look at the \tempo command. Everybody and their dog tells me
> > that this is just what a musician wants in syntax. Whenever I do
> > significant work on the parser, \tempo pitches in with a few dozen
> > reduce/reduce errors and takes an hour of extra time.
>
> I would argue that this is an indication that the \tempo syntax is a
> mistake. If making backward incompatible changes is allowed, I would
> suggest to reconsider and scrap the onerous parts of its syntax.
Of course backwards incompatible changes are allowed until GLISS
has stabilized a particular bit of language.
But in the case of \tempo, I would hope that adding explicit
delimiters to the parameters could clear it up. I think we should
require explicit delimiters around the argument list for any
function which has an optional arguments.
- Graham
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", (continued)
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Werner LEMBERG, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Graham Percival, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Werner LEMBERG, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Graham Percival, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/13
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y",
Graham Percival <=
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/14
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Werner LEMBERG, 2012/09/14
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/16
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Graham Percival, 2012/09/22
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Jay Anderson, 2012/09/22
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/22
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Francisco Vila, 2012/09/23
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", James, 2012/09/23
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/09/23
- Re: [GLISS] non-timed or non-musical events "z" "y", David Kastrup, 2012/09/23