Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: > On 20.06.2018 11:18, Urs Liska wrote: >> (let* >> ((elts (ly:music-property mus 'elements)) >> (cnt (length elts) > > OT: Is ‘cnt’ a common abbreviation in programming? Because it would > seem to me like it’s too close to offensive…
"count" doesn't seem that much better. Nor does "gown". Let me quote from Shakespeare's "Henry V": KATHARINE Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment appelez-vous le pied et la robe? ALICE De foot, madame; et de coun. KATHARINE De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun! Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun. ALICE Excellent, madame! At any rate, "cnt" does not seem all that bad considering that Scheme would also permit asterisks into identifiers like "c*nt". Which, taking common wildcard rules, could still stand in for "count" but I doubt people would interpret it that way. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user