Re: Whitespace in LilyPond source files

[Michael Hendry]

> On 18 May 2016, at 11:03, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Werner,
> 
> On 18 May 2016 at 13:49, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Please file a feature request in our bug database.  I believe it
>> should be rather straightforward to extend the set of allowed
>> whitespace in lilypond's lexer.
> 
> A very easy thing to do in the code I am sure. But why do it? This
> means that for every whitespace lexeme in a source file a lexer has to
> do 8 or 9 or 10 comparisons for spaces, probably more if you make a
> full list of all the Unicode space objects. In large files, the slow
> down in compile time would probably be measurable. What other
> languages allow this?
> 
> Can the OP not filter the HTML source code through tr or perl to
> produce conforming source?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that Lilypond allows any utf-8 character 
in an LY file.

If that’s the case, it should surely be able to handle any utf-8 space 
character correctly without the need for a pre-processor stage.

Michael

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