On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:50:49PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Mark Polesky wrote Saturday, October 09, 2010 4:46 PM > > >It's not that I want to split hairs; I want to get the new > >variable names right the first time. My apologies to any of > >you who are getting tired with this process.
%%% in Mark-style, read to the bottom before commenting. :) This discussion has been quite short (what, one week?), has not made any attempt to consult users or external projects that use or output lilypond input code, etc. We *will* have complaints about this change. If anybody is tired of _this_ process, then Mao help them when GLISS is happening. (that said, GLISS will occur on a separate mailing list, for precisely this reason -- people who want to discuss syntax can do it there, while this list can focus on serious development stuff) > I'm afraid I'm no longer following this discussion sufficiently > carefully to tender sensible comment, Me too. > I think now it would be better to push the changes, fix > the documentation, and let us try using it to see if any > more tweaks are worth making. +1 This is not going to be the "final" syntax change for spacing names. David's idea is interesting, and who knows what other possibilities might be suggested if we had a wider consultation. However, that's a task for GLISS 2 in a year or two, not right now. Once you have agreement from Joe and a lack of screams of agony from any other main developers, start pushing stuff. When users complain, I'll tell them to get stuffed [1]. [1] do any other Canadians miss the Royal Canadian Air Farce? Now that I'm in Scotland, I keep on fondly remembering their "left-handed immigrant bagpipe technician" comedy sketches. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel