Re: [PATCH 1/2] scm/define-markup-commands.scm: remove some unnecessary lookups

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 17 nov. 2009 à 19:00, Carl Sorensen a écrit :

> David,
> 
> I appreciate your work on this.
> 
> However, I am *not* in favor of moving in this direction to solve the
> problems you correctly identified.
> 
> In my mind, the *last* thing we need is another opaque interface in
> LilyPond, where in the markup command we don't know whether a certain
> property is to be looked up in props or to be assigned a value in a
> let-binding from the define-internal-markup-command macro.
> 
> I think it's *much* better to pass default values as appended values to the
> tail of props.  Then we can go ahead and use a props lookup in the code.

I disagree. The patch is consistent with all other markup command definitions,
and inforces a common coding style.

Changing the value of `props' as you suggest is not much better: changing the
value of a function argument behind the scene is not what I would call a fine
design.

Moreover, seeing the chain-assoc-get calls ever and ever on the very same
argument calls for a simplification: this is the lisp way of things. That's
why I introduced this property binding mechanism.

The interface is opaque, you're right. Then it shall be better documented:
please wait for a few days until I work on that.

Nicolas