On Fri 24 Nov 2017 at 10:08:29 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
> Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 24 November 2017 at 09:49, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > I'm sorry for the trivial question but why this code is wrong?
> >> >
> >> > \version "2.19.80"
> >> >
> >> > music = {a b}
> >> > \music
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > My understanding was that "\music" is substituted by its value "{a
> >> b}"....
> >>
> >> You need to put anything in between. LilyPond looks at \music before
> >> deciding the assignment is complete because the assignment could be
> >>
> >> music = {a b} \addlyrics {Oh well}
> >>
> >> For that it needs to decide what \music is but the assignment is not yet
> >> complete...
> >
> > Thank you David!
> >
> > It is a bit frustrating.
>
> If you think that is frustrating, try working on the parser. I didn't
> design that insane \addlyrics syntax.
>
> > Even apparently simple things are complicated.... but that's ok.
>
> Things are complicated _because_ of appearing simple. Some simple
> appearances are more complicated to do than others.
>
> You would not want to write your music in Scheme syntax, and that would
> be by far the simplest to make sense of.
>
> I've worked on that late assignment nuisance a few times already.
When you think that writing just
\music
can buy you
\score {
\new Staff {
\new Voice {
\music
}
}
}
and more, then having to write at least
{
\music
}
won't seem so onerous.
Cheers,
David.
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