Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Fairchild wrote:
> Overwhelming and convincing argument.

I would like to see the argument for the opposite, since there are so 
many characters that are alike. We have the n-dash and the em-dash  for 
the hyphen, and unicode (being 31-bit) doubtlessly will have tons of oth 
er similar characters. How do you suggest to go about and find them all? 
What will this gain in clarity of the language definition, and how do 
you propose to deal with ambiguities in the syntax (the high ascii chars 
normally being part of a string.)

In any event, the definition of ' for Scheme (i.e. #   in LilyPond) is 
set by the R5RS standard. We cannot change that.

In short, I think it is bad idea, and I wish people would just trust my 
judgement for once.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:13 PM
> To: Fairchild
> Cc: 'Bec and John'; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?
>
>
> Fairchild wrote:
>
> >    be fixed to accept all single quote characters interchangeably?
>
>
> no.


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