Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Marc Hohl <address@hidden> 
writes
> 1) personally, I would use the "%", but this is the comment sign and 
> can't be used.
>   (perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!)

Oh my gosh, please, NOOO!!!!

As Han-Wen has said, parsing is important. In another life I work with a 
language called DataBasic. What do you thing of the following line of 
code:

REM: REM = REM(6, 4) ; REM This is an example of a horrendous line.

Here we have REM used consecutively as (1) a label, (2) a variable, (3) 
a function, and (4) a language command. Now imagine how easy that is to 
lex/parse... because it IS legal syntax ! :-(

Cheers,
Wol
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