Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@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
