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Re: Strings as variable names
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Strings as variable names |
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Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:20:28 +0100 |
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Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> Am 28.12.2015 um 18:49 schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> Using the syntax with quotes is rather ugly, I agree. But it is
>>> > nonetheless potentially useful for two reasons:
>>> > (1) it enables us to use numbers etc. in variable names
>> Why would that be desirable?
>>
>
> Whenever you have variables pointing to indexed parts or to consecutive
> snippets you may want to use variables like
>
> violin1 =
> violin2 =
What's wrong with violinI ?
> or
>
> flute_phrase01 =
> flute_phrase02 =
>
> or similar.
When would you ever want to do that?
> This is expressive as LilyPond code per se, and would be accessible
> for scripting, e.g. to generate stub files with empty varialbes.
Why would violinI not be accessible for scripting?
That's just (format #f "address@hidden" 1).
> The workaround using roman numbers is pretty cumbersome,
What's this with "workaround" anyway? I have more scores using
"ViolinĀ I" and "ViolinĀ II" for their parts than otherwise.
Here are the instrument names of literally the first score I found on my
desktop:
> and I think
>
> violin_02_34 would be much more comprehensible to most users than
> violinIIxxxiv
34 separate second violins seem a bit excessive.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Strings as variable names, (continued)
- Re: Strings as variable names, Urs Liska, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Johan Vromans, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Johan Vromans, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Johan Vromans, 2015/12/29
- Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
Re: Strings as variable names, David Sumbler, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Urs Liska, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names,
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- Re: Strings as variable names, Kieren MacMillan, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Malte Meyn, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/28
- Re: Strings as variable names, Malte Meyn, 2015/12/28
Re: Strings as variable names, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/28
Re: Strings as variable names, Johan Vromans, 2015/12/28
Re: Strings as variable names, David Kastrup, 2015/12/28
Re: Strings as variable names, Johan Vromans, 2015/12/29
Re: Strings as variable names, Marc Hohl, 2015/12/28
Re: Strings as variable names, Thomas Morley, 2015/12/28