> On 18 May 2016, at 11:03, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Werner, > > On 18 May 2016 at 13:49, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Please file a feature request in our bug database. I believe it >> should be rather straightforward to extend the set of allowed >> whitespace in lilypond's lexer. > > A very easy thing to do in the code I am sure. But why do it? This > means that for every whitespace lexeme in a source file a lexer has to > do 8 or 9 or 10 comparisons for spaces, probably more if you make a > full list of all the Unicode space objects. In large files, the slow > down in compile time would probably be measurable. What other > languages allow this? > > Can the OP not filter the HTML source code through tr or perl to > produce conforming source?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that Lilypond allows any utf-8 character in an LY file. If that’s the case, it should surely be able to handle any utf-8 space character correctly without the need for a pre-processor stage. Michael > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
