On 29 April 2010 21:36, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:11:13PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: >> Speaking of which, I often wished we had a cool shortcut for writing >> repeats using a postfix syntax, e.g. >> { large music expression here };4 >> instead of >> \repeat unfold 4 { large music expression } > > That would already be handled by > { ...} * 4 > which is much more intuitive than ;4
You took the words straight out of my mouth. :) I'm afraid I couldn't resist testing this, so if you're interested, try the attached patch. Cheers, Neil
From 9c143dbdc40ec9a60ad110d2869ce7ad1ed6ca29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Puttock <n.putt...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:52:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Cool repeat shorthand for Valentin :) --- lily/parser.yy | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lily/parser.yy b/lily/parser.yy index ac0d357..3b4295d 100644 --- a/lily/parser.yy +++ b/lily/parser.yy @@ -994,6 +994,11 @@ repeated_music: { $$ = MAKE_SYNTAX ("repeat", @$, $2, $3, $4, $5); } + | + sequential_music '*' unsigned_number + { + $$ = MAKE_SYNTAX ("repeat", @$, ly_string2scm ("unfold"), $3, $1, SCM_EOL); + } ; sequential_music: -- 1.7.0.4
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