Re: LilyPond identifier restrictions

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Maybe it's obvious but I always wondered why LilyPond identifiers are
> > so restricted to [a-zA-Z] characters.
> 
> They aren't.

\version "2.16"

Mvmnt1Voice1 = {
 a b c
}
 
\score { 
 \Mvmnt1Voice1
}


GNU LilyPond 2.16.0
Processing `test.ly'
Parsing...
test.ly:4:5: error: syntax error, unexpected UNSIGNED, expecting
SCM_FUNCTION or SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN or '='
Mvmnt
     1Voice1 = {


perhaps this is what Urs was referring to?

Richard