Karlin High <karlinh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Robert Hickman <robehick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The only way to create good documentation is to listen to your users >> problems and progressively make improvements. > > Yes, exactly! The LilyPond community has a process for this. > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions> > > However, in any software development community, some suggestions are > more likely to be accepted than others. For example, if I went to a > forum for a C-family language and said "This whole business of ending > each line with a semicolon is just stupid; you need to change that!" > what response would I get? Swift and overwhelmingly negative, right?
Uh, no? There is a reason #define BLA(...) do { ... } while (0) is an idiom. Exactly in order _not_ to end with a semicolon when doing if (...) BLA (xxx); else blubb (); > That language element was settled years ago, and my opinions on it are > irrelevant. Whatever help I would get from the C-people, getting rid > of the semicolons would not be part of it. Except when it's a clever way of getting rid of an unwanted semicolon. Or in this case, create a semicolon hole, a negative semicolon count. Add one semicolon, and none remains. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user