Re: GOP2-3 - GLISS (final)

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:09:51PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> "address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'd sent out a note of agreement before but I'll send out another one
> > just to signal that I'm 100% for incrementally freezing parts of
> > LilyPond's syntax. Specifically, I'm comfortable saying that
> > everything in the examples above should be frozen.
> 
> \tempo syntax is quite an abomination.  It is one of those things that
> regularly cause parser changes to trip up.

\times syntax is quite an abomination.  It is one of those things
that regularly cause people to trip up.

> So when saying "Everything should be frozen", I'd rather hope
> this means the _elements_ to freeze, but not their exact current
> syntax.

Yes.  I am working on
https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra/tree/master/gliss
and will send an outline of future discussion in a few hours.

- Graham