Re: *.mid vs *.midi

[Hans Aberg]

On 19 May 2008, at 15:59, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I would propose to move the remainder of this discussion off the  
> mailing list.
>
> Regards
>
>    /Mats

My hope was to get to the discussion of using in Lilypond Haskell  
like a "import" construct, which I think might help LilyPond users,  
as opposed to the current "\include", which I think is more like the  
C preprocessor "#include", and is trickier to use.

In Haskell one can write:
  module A where
  import List
  ------
  module B where
  import A
  import List

Here, the module List is imported twice in B, but the module system  
just imports it once. Also, one does not need to worry about the  
order, so also
  module B where
  import List
  import A
would be OK.

In addition, in C++, one must watch out for the difference between:
  #include "foo.hh"
  namespace B {...}
and
  namespace B {
  #include "foo.hh"
  ...
  }
which is not needed in Haskell.

In Lilypond, I thought that perhaps it was such file setup problems  
that causes problems for users.

  Hans