Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[David Kastrup]

Keith OHara <address@hidden> writes:

> Janek Warchoł <janek.lilypond <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
>> >> So far I don't feel that the discussion has been very fruitful.
>> >
>> > And it will not be fruitful in the near future.  One reason is that I am
>> > basically the only one seriously working on the parser right now, and I
>> > am learning while I am working on it, both about the work flow for
>> > getting Bison where you want it, and about the complications.  This is
>> > work that is really hard to do, but it can't be done except, basically,
>> > incrementally.
>> 
>> For what it's worth, i'm ok with this discussion (and similar ones)
>> happening on devel, as long as we won't loose track of concrete
>> proposals (when they will appear, ofc.).
>> 
>
> I posted a patch for the numbers-in-identifiers enhancement
> <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1670>
>
> It might help a little as a concrete example, showing the challenges of 
> supporting LilyPond's very lenient syntax.
>
> (I can't really tell for sure, but I think maybe David likes the patch.)

Just shows what an abysmal communicator I am.

-- 
David Kastrup