Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Vectors don't make sense unless you give a mechanism to map/iterate
>> over them, ie something along the lines of
>>
>> (make-parallel-music (vector->list
>>   (map (lambda (x) (add-new-context "Staff" x)) violin)))
>
> It would be easy enough to let $@ work on arbitrary sequences, not just
> lists.  You can already write things like
>
> << $@(map ...) >>
>
> How many people are asking for \violin2 all the time?

How many people of these are asking for a O(1) indexed access
container? I think most people just want to write "2" instead of
"Two".  I don't see how a person asking for \violin2 is asking for
arrays. Most compositions don't have more than 2 violin voices anyway.

I am actually supportive of allowing digits in identifiers, it has
irked me for years that we could not get it to work. I vaguely recall
you implemented this in 2.16 already, but I guess I am mistaken?

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