Re: procedures with setters: patches

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:53:15 +0100, Han-Wen a dit : 
> 
>  > I'm ambivalent. The danger is that the number of functions to create
>  > and manipulate data structures explodes, and becomes harder to
>  > learn. We have to find a balance between having a small "interface"
>  > and an interface that is ultra-ergonomic to use. For the above case, I
>  > think make-music-by-name-and-props and is useful, althouh I oppose of
>  > the name. Why not have
> 
>  >       make-music-by-name
> 
>  > take an optional alist or list  of init values?
> 
> Of course, once there is a music maker that can have properties as
> arguments, former make-music-by-name has no use.
> 
> By the way, why not `make-music'? I cannot find another
> make-music-by-something in the sources. It would look like
> (make-instance 'class-name ...options...) ==> instance of class-name.

It was a transitional name, I guess ; I forgot. 

> (make-music 'OverrideProperty 
>             'symbol 'Stem
>             'grob-property 'thickness
>             'grob-value (* 2 1.5)
>             'pop-first #t))
> ==>
> <OverrideProperty :pop-first #t
>                   :grob-value 3.0
>                   :grob-property thickness
>                   :symbol Stem>
> 
> If that's OK, I may build some patches.

go for it.

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