On 12/7/2023 12:21 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Documentation question from trying to understand *location* in
David's solution:
Guessing, is sip a stream input pointer? _Where would I look to find
the definition/example of sip?_
*location* doesn't return a string but a special type of
location/input object.
The name "sip" is a bit weird; looking in the commit that added the
code 19 years ago, it looks like it was meant as "smob input" (where
smob = Scheme object = LilyPond C++ object made available to Scheme).
Thanks for the explanation, Jean.
The technical glossary
(https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/technical-glossary)
does include smob but not sip.
And I had misinterpreted *location* as either an attempt at emphasis in
email and/or short for insert-your-location-here rather than literally
executable scheme code.
Is that construct (*location*) a general scheme syntax (so that some
*foo* could be also be meaningful), or perhaps is it a reserved word?
My attempts to search the Lilypond index for *location* seemed to ignore
the asterisks or take them as wild-cards. Ditto when trying the sphinx
search icon in your https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/scheme/.
Not to snark, but perhaps I should cease my hunting of the elusive *sip*
for fear that it is a boojum, causing me to softly and suddenly vanish away.
Thanks,
Je...
