Re: How do feel people about the following change in syntax?

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:42:47PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> I am currently trying to make music functions more powerful, in
> particular their argument predicates.  Also I am trying to relieve the
> parser from responsibilities.

Looks basically good to me.  GLISS was never planned to tackle
scheme stuff, and waiting for GLISS 2 would take 2 years or more
at our current rate of progress.  I see no reason to postpone this
change for that long.

> Now I have a possibly slightly contentious change...  I want to let { }
> mimic the new functionality of #{ #} instead of creating sequential
> music unconditionally.  That means the following:
> 
>                       previously equivalent to    now equivalent to
> { \with ... }         syntax error                context-modification
> { c4 }                \sequential { c4 }          simple-music

What happens if somebody writes
  { \with foo    c4     \with bar    d4 }
?

Cheers,
- Graham