On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:00:41PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > > > Here is one example where -3 and -13 do totally different things: > > > > > > xxxx=-3 > > yyyy=-13 > > #(display xxxx) > > #(display yyyy) > > Incidentally: does anybody have a reasonable idea how we want to get > around this?
completely untested: yyyy = -1.0 * 13 ? :) The serious answer is to add # in front of all numbers; we started doing this in the docs back in 2007. > Currently it would appear impossible to assign one-digit negative > numbers to variables since they are instead interpreted as fingerings. > > That seems like a rather appalling deficiency in the syntax. Oh, agreed. I think we should remove the DIGIT stuff. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
