Re: Maybe version should be mandatory

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 17 December 2004 17.19, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 09:34 am, Michael Kallas wrote:
> > Would it maybe make sense to make \version
> > numbers in the .ly files mandatory?
> > Or at least have some --Wall / --strict feature
> > that fails if it is not set?
> > That way, you would't forget to insert the version
> > and have to learn the hard way after years
> > that it would have been good to do so for compiling
> > with a different version.
>
> That's really a very good idea. Lilypond could fail
> if there were no \version and warn if the version
> were incorrect in some way.  daveA

I'd like it the other way around. If \version is missing, a warning could be 
adequate. You may sometimes want to be able to do small quick test files 
containing just a couple of notes, like {c'8 d e f}. In these files you don't 
want to bother adding a \version statement. If the version is incorrect, then 
I think the current behaviour is good (i.e. abort if the version number is 
outside a given range).

Erik