Am 16.10.2012 02:44, schrieb David Kastrup: > Most of the things that would count as simplifications are so because > they drop details used for distinguishing things told to the computer. > Where those distinctions are distinctions between non-sensical > directions and potentially useful directions, dropping them means that > LilyPond needs dependable ways to tell non-sense from sense. That means > that before being able to drop such a distinction, sense and non-sense > need to be separated by lines that are clearly distinguishable by > LilyPond and clearly recognizable to the user. Usually this means that > they obey simple rules.
That is correct, but too abstract for me to see what it means in this particular case. > Searching and recognizing those rules and condensing them into a > coherent design needs significantly different analytical skills than > having an opinion about simplicity, even though this opinion may very > well correlate with some degree of underlying consistency. > > And there will be situations which lend themselves to multiple > incompatible patternings. Picking among different incompatible > patternings of a problem space means making choices with consequences > for future patterning work beyond the immediately apparent consequence > of each choice. [...] Sure. That's why I wrote what I find confusing (and how *I* would find it easier to handle), regardless of the implications - just because I don't know them. It is clear that you know much better what a good choice is, as you know the consequences. So my suggestion had to be read with a shy "perhaps?". > What I am getting at is that if we want to have the basic functionality > usable for beginners and musicians who don't know programming, it won't > do to let beginners and musicians who don't know programming make the > design choices, even though their input and feedback will be helpful for > making checking that the design actually meets its objectives. I agree completely. And I do not vote for a democratic choice. The decision is always up to you developers, because I don't have the knowledge to decide what the best solution would be. (And I appreciate that my mail has been taken notice of - that's enough for me. I have trust in the decisions made without me - in the past they were quite good.) Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
