Re: Proposed context property renaming

[Dan Eble]

On 2024-12-12 11:16, Trevor Bača wrote:
> should happen in public-facing parts of the API), then why not rename 
> voltaSpannerDuration to voltaSpannerMoment instead of 
> voltaSpannerMusicLength? In other words, what's the motivation for 
> further spreading around musicLength when the underlying type is 
> presumably Moment?

I have been removing user-facing moments where they have been used to 
store a time difference rather than a time point.  That is why 
#(ly:make-moment) has become \musicLength.  That is why baseMoment has 
become beatBase.  voltaSpannerDuration is on the list of properties to 
be converted.  While converting their types, I am secondarily trying to 
improve their names.

That doesn't cut to the root of your "why?", but for that, I believe 
there are conversations in the list archive.  (If you have trouble 
finding an answer, please feel free to ask again.  I just don't want to 
spend the next hour composing a full explanation if the archive is 
sufficient.)
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Dan