Re: [Gnu-music-discuss] Inheritance?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> >> ... It looks like lexical scoping rather
> >> than dynamic binding is the order of the day in lilypond, and I wonder
> >> if over all, from the user perspective, if it wouldn't be better ---
> >> simpler if a different binding method were used. Perhaps message
> >> passing would improve the situation.
> 
> I have read over what you (Scott) wrote several times and have tried
> unsuccessfully to see a situation where dynamic scoping would be better
> (in *any* way) to lexical scoping.  I can accept this as a shortcoming

The remark is all the more puzzling since \property is dynamically
scoped: by doing a staff-switch, you can change the \property value
that a voice sees.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/