Re: Proposed context property renaming

[Carl Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:03 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Trevor Bača <trevorbaca@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am concerned by what seems to be an unwillingness to use the term
> > "duration" to label things in the system that are clearly durations.
>
> Computers are not fond of ambiguities.  I am concerned by what seems to
> be an unwillingness to use consistent terminology while expecting
> consistent results.
>

Would it be reasonable to use the term "Duration" in cases where we are
discussing length of music, and change the internal structure we have been
calling Duration to something like ItemDuration?

Then an ItemDuration could contain a durlog and some dots.  And a Duration
would have main music (and possible grace music) lengths as rationals.

That might be a way to get the user-facing notation to be more consistent
(length is physical length, duration is music length).

I don't know if this makes sense, but it's an idea I had.


Carl