Problem executing example code with LilyPond 2.16.2

[Speldosa]

I've had some trouble with changing parameters in LilyPond, so I tried out
some example code from the manual.

In  section 4.2.1
<http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/learning/properties-of-layout-objects>
  
of the LilyPond Learning Manual, I found the following example code, which
is meant to demonstrate how to change a property of a layout object (this is
directly copy-and-pasted from the manual):

{
  \key es \major
  \time 6/8
  {
    % Increase thickness of all following slurs from 1.2 to 5.0
    \override Slur.thickness = #5.0
    r4 bes8 bes[( g]) g |
    g8[( es]) es d[( f]) as |
    as8 g
  }
  \addlyrics {
    The man who | feels love's sweet e -- | mo -- tion
  }
}

When commenting out the \override line, everything compiles fine for me in
LilyPond 2.16.2. However, when uncommenting it (and therefore, running the
example code in its entirety) I get the following error message:

Test.ly:6:29: error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting SCM_FUNCTION or
SCM_IDENTIFIER or SCM_TOKEN
    \override Slur.thickness 
                             = #5.0
Test.ly:6:31: warning: Ignoring non-music expression
    \override Slur.thickness = 
                               #5.0
Test.ly:1:0: error: errors found, ignoring music expression

What is going on here? 





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