On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> So far the discussion has gone according to my predictions. > There's panic (and IMO overraction) from people who actually know > the parser, which does not encourage open discussion of ideas. > Why not hold the preliminary discussions on a separate list (to > which parser experts are encouraged *not* to read), then only > bring a proposal to -devel when it's ready? Sure, but please bring it in the form of a parser patch, for two reasons: * there are not enough people that know the parser, and it would be better to have more. Sure, it may be a tough subject, but I never took a compiler course or read the dragon book, and I managed to wrap my head around it. * It may be a coincidence that the people that understand the parser are adverse to most changes to it, but I posit that there is a causal relationship. I have been dealing with syntax changes and "improvements" for many years; and it is tiring. Why can't people see the world from our perspective for a change? > I mean, what possible downsides are there to this? It will be I have only so much time. Don't waste it with fluffing around. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
