Am 13.08.2016 um 08:10 schrieb David Kastrup: > Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> writes: > >> I have written a function to return the lowercase version of a symbol >> for use in my library as >> >> % Return the lowercase version of a symbol >> #(define (symbol->lowercase sym) >> (string->symbol >> (string-downcase >> (symbol->string sym)))) >> >> Just a small question: this seems so general > Why? What would that be useful for? Normal convention for symbols is > already lowercase.
I accept package/module names as a symbol-list path, and users are allowed to write them using "display" names, like \loadModule scholarLY.annotate Internally I'm converting them to lowercase to prevent ambiguity, so input is a symbol but with arbitrary case. Having a list of strings would be much less convenient to use. > >> that I can't imagine it isn't already available somewhere in Scheme, >> Guile or LilyPond. Of course I'd prefer using an official function >> instead of my own. >> >> Thanks for any pointers > Well, grepping for downcase in LilyPond does not return anything that > would look like a facility of that kind. > OK, so I keep it "private". Best Urs _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
