Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> writes: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:05:22 +1100 > Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The name of a variable must have alphabetic characters only, no numbers, >> underscores, or dashes. >> >> Most lilypond users would write bellaMelodia, conventionally. In terms of >> readability, it’s clearer to read than the string with quotes, I reckon. > > They would write bellaMelodia since there is (was) no alternative to > separate "words" in a variable name. 2.19.33 seems to accept dashes and > underscores as well. Maybe the NR needs updating?
The quote character syntax was issue 2931. The change was for 2.18 but not mentioned in the Changes file. Single, in-word occurences of - and _ were allowed for 2.16 already, issue 2702. It was mentioned in Changes at that time. I think that some other documentation was changed as well but am not sure how completely. The quote syntax is a bit of an ugliness which was added for sort-of consistency reasons. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
