On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:44 AM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi Valentin, > > > Or, we just don’t bother and keep using (and recommending) # everywhere. > > Thoughts? > > I use # everywhere I can, even where it’s not strictly necessary, in part > because it visibly sets arguments apart for easy parsing [by me]. > > Not sure if that’s useful input for you? > Hi Kieren, Valentin, I've shifted my practice the opposite direction of Kieren's, I suppose: I omit # before numbers everywhere that it's possible to do so. No real Lily rationale here, other than a personal coding practice to employ the (lexically) shortest version of equivalent statements. I think the original impulse came years ago when I was trying to rid myself of redundant precedence indicators, eg, to use "a + b * c" everywhere in place of "a + (b * c)"; because the two forms are equivalent (in most languages), I wanted a canonical version for myself that I could spot at a glance. That practice leaked into my Lily code, with the slight preference now for "99" to "#99" where the forms are equivalent. Trevor. -- Trevor Bača www.trevorbaca.com soundcloud.com/trevorbaca _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
