Re: *.mid vs *.midi

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 May 2008, at 22:15, Karl Hammar wrote:

> A startup file would be about the same as an initial \include.

Perhaps it is not needed in a compiler.

> I would be nice to be able to do like
>
>   lilypond a.ly .. o.ly z.ly
>
> i.e. treat a.ly .. o.ly as if they where included in z.ly, without
> having to say so in z.ly.

This would walk down the path of C-like compilers.

Have you checked out Haskell <http://haskell.org/> and the compiler  
GHC? - Haskell has a module system, which makes it possible for GHC  
to compile by
  ghc --make a.hs
where "a.hs" is a file containing a "main" function. By the module  
system, it is possible to deduce what files to include. One then only  
needs to set the library paths somewhere.

Convenient, though perhaps far from current Lilypond.

  Hans