On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Isn't this an argument for delimiting the argument list? >>> >>> It is. The disadvantage is that it breaks all existing files. >> >> I think i remember one of the developers saying "we should also care >> for future users, and that's [hopefully] a bigger group than current >> users". > > Yes, I know. This was in a time that the future user base was much > larger than the current one. > >> I don't mean that we should screw our current users - i mean that we >> shouldn't get around design flaws that we'll be still cursing in 20 >> years from now :) FWIW, we broke almost all files in a major way with the 1.8 => 2.0 transition, where we moved to postfix event notation, moving from [a()b] to a[( b]) after that we have tried to limit the amount of syntax breakage we would do. The quote you mention is certainly from before that time. -- 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
