Re: Thinking about another disruptive change

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am 2011-11-15 10:49, schrieb David Kastrup:
> The "principle of lazy complication" would keep material as simple as
> feasible until a more complicated version is asked for.
>
> That is, when a music function asks for a "scheme?" argument and the
> input is just c', it gets a pitch.  If it asks for a "ly:music?" event,
> it gets a NoteEvent (not an EventChord).  If it asks for an EventChord,
> it gets one.
> [...]
>
> All in all, such a change should make programming and inspecting data
> structures much more straightforward, and particularly save the
> programmer from the "let's see what complex structures Lilypond creates
> from simple input and devise a scheme how to get at the simple things we
> actually wanted" phenomenon.
>
> But it is definitely not going to be an upwards-compatible change.

What will be different for a normal user? I.e. What basic lilypond
notation will change? And what advanced notation will break with that
change?

Cheers,
Reinhold

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