Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

[Maarten Deen]

On 2018-10-02 22:56, David Kastrup wrote:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Harm,
> >
> > > val = "foo"
> > > <<
> > >  \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 c'4
> > >  \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val2 \val4 }
> > >  \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val4 \val2 }
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Your proposal would make it impossible.

Thanks for the examples. Obviously I'm not such a hard core user to see 
all the problems that are associated with my lament.

> It's not like we don't have this discussion pretty much every year.

But the solution offered by Kieren did not work in 2.16.2 (didn't test 
other versions). No idea if the possibility to use quoted variables was 
added consciously but I also can't find a reference to this in the 
documentation (while instrumentOne and instrumentTwo are used as 
examples).
Maybe this needs to be documented. And if it is a happy side effect of 
some other change, it might be good to realise it's there and users 
probably like it (hate to see this disappear in a next version).

Regards,
Maarten