"Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalo...@gmail.com> writes: > On 11/10/22 18:48, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >> Le 11/11/2022 à 00:40, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : >>> But I don't know what syntax to pick for that, or if it's essential >>> to have one or if "+" alone is already useful enough on its own. >>> 1`16 is the best I could find, but it's not wonderfully mnemonic. >>> I think the reason why I can feel like it's a difference is the >>> set difference operator \ which is a bar in the same direction >>> as ` if you squint at it, but I doubt others will have that feeling ... >> Well, another one is "1!16". >> I'm having a hard time to explain why, but I feel it's much >> better than "1`16" already, although not as elegant as >> "1-16". > > Bikeshedding here…. What about ` 1+-16 `? Defines the `+` operator > as additive scaling, the same as `*` is multiplicative scaling, and > allows negative numbers.
Thanks, I already was in a state of panic. I think we should avoid piling on arbitrary stuff without clear need for expressing music into the LilyPond grammar. There may be a point in making it easier to do that kind of stuff in Scheme, like with overloading operators for moment arithmetic. -- David Kastrup
