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Re: pygment regex question
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David Kastrup |
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Re: pygment regex question |
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Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:11:55 +0100 |
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Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> writes:
> \override NoteHead.color = red
>
> actually lowers the barrier immensely compared with
>
> \override NoteHead #'color = #red
red and #red are completely different Scheme entities.
> - of course that's more than one syntax simplificiation here, but it
> shows how much David's improvements have improved accessibility.
I was not responsible for symbolic/string color support (or whatever
is involved here).
> But, as I said before: Making everything seem perfectly simple (no #,
> no ', no "") is bound to put the user in a situation sooner or later
> where things are not so simple anymore, and we have to explain why
> they need to use additional symbols in their specific case. But in any
> case, I'm much more inclined to explain about string delimiters ""
> than about #'.
Which is one thing making the type-light approach of Lua nice for
extension language design. Scheme already has too many types. But that
ship has sailed...
--
David Kastrup
- Re: pygment regex question, (continued)
- Re: pygment regex question, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/25
- Re: pygment regex question, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/25
- Re: pygment regex question, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/25
- Re: pygment regex question, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question, Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question,Re: pygment regex question, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question,Re: pygment regex question, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question, David Kastrup, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question, Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/11/26
- Re: pygment regex question,
David Kastrup <=
- Color variables/symbols (was: pygment regex question), Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Luca Fascione, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols, Luca Fascione, 2022/11/26
- Re: Color variables/symbols (was: pygment regex question), Lukas-Fabian Moser, 2022/11/26
Re: pygment regex question, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/25