Re: Explicit default duration?

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <dan@lyric.works> writes:

> On Jan 23, 2023, at 10:11, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I am not saying that 0 is the best choice here.  It merely appears to be
>> rather cheap.  I thought of * and / but the first renders sequences like
>> c4*2 ambiguous and the second would at least become a mess in chord
>> mode.
>
> Can you clarify how `c4*2` would be ambiguous?  (I was about to
> suggest `r*1` for your original example.)

c4*2 could be read as c4 c4 c2 if all of 4 * 2 are interpreted as
individual durations.

-- 
David Kastrup