Re: music functions: how to translate

[Michael Meixner]

Nicolas Sceaux <nicolas.sceaux <at> free.fr> writes:

> Using a loop construct (not part of guile), that would be:
> 
>   (loop for event in (ly:music-property event-chord 'elements)
>         unless (null? (ly:music-property event 'duration))
>         do (set! (ly:music-property event 'duration)
>                  new-duration))
> 
> Some parts of the LilyPond scheme code would be easier to read (and to
> write) if they'd use it, imho.

How would this syntax come into play, of not with GUILE?
One would have to build these functions in a private library?
(Sorry for newbie-devel-speak here...)

Michael