On 2023-01-23 3:46 pm, Carl Sorensen wrote:
a8**3 is 5 key strokes.
a8 8 8 is 6 key strokes.
In exchange for saving one key stroke, I have a new operator to
remember
(and get confused about) and to maintain changes to the lexer and
parser.
It's not all about saving key strokes, but documenting intent and
removing code duplication.
I get the lack of utility of \repeat unfold (14 keystrokes) for short
music
expressions (like a single note). But I don't think that ** is
intuitive
enough to use it.
If there were an alternative operator that would not mess up lookahead
and
would not suffer with the confusion between * and ** (people already
think
* does your proposed **), I could be convinced.
Well, blame my email program, as it truncated my original post. I had
intended to fully call out that ** is exponentiation in some language,
thus might not be the best symbol.
But this discussion is quickly devolving into needless dissection of
details. If you object at the high-level, let us not waste time at the
low-level.
-- Aaron Hill
