Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:03 AM
> Subject: For those who need new features and bug fixes...
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>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be
>> filling them with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming.
>> So, this is the time to send me:
>>
>> 1) Features you need implemented.
>> 2) Bugs you need fixed.
>> 3) Things you need reviewed.
>>
>> I'll get as many of them done as I can on the flight.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> MS
>
> I don't know how feasible it is, but
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=34

I'd recommend against it.  The main problem is that moments are
interchangeably used as time spans and time moments and the arithmetic
properties with regard to grace timing are a foul compromise of those
semantics.

Doing this properly would, in my opinion, replace all uses of moments as
time spans with straightforward rationals.  I've started on this thing
several times with the idea of getting it under control by working on
the features of moment arithmetic alone, but it is a losing battle due
to this kind of inconsistency.  Any solution concocted in 12 hours will
be of the kind opening man-months of subsequent semantics-tweaking.

-- 
David Kastrup