Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes:
>>> you can use `set!`:
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> Thanks!
>
>>> But note that this may cause race conditions, [...]
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> Please explain and/or give an example.
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>> The global variable afterGraceFraction has bothered me for some time
>> now. Shouldn't this be a context property? [...]
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> I guess that David has thought about that...
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>> (Of course, the current implementation of afterGrace makes this
>> comparatively hard to achieve, since the fraction is used for
>> determining the length of a skip IIRC.)
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> ...and came to the conclusion that a global variable is the easiest
> solution :-)
I refuse that honor. afterGraceFraction was introduced with
commit 4e39a726c0dd6db9d2f590cc05daa907115bb916
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <han...@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun Nov 28 17:33:34 2004 +0000
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and all I did was to provide an optional argument to \afterGrace to be
able to forego that effectively hardcoded wart. Optional music function
arguments were not a thing in 2004.
--
David Kastrup
