Despite the fact that it would cause massive problems in parsing, a line
like
c4 4 4 4
is not quite readable for me.
As lilypond is THE tool for typesetting beautiful scores, the source
file should
reflect the beauty. So I should be able to grasp the score at first sight,
and in my opinion, a distinct "repeat the last expression"-sign would
be the best solution.
To join the discussion about the "best" character, here are my 2 cents:
1) personally, I would use the "%", but this is the comment sign and
can't be used.
(perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!)
2) the "&" has a similar role in regular expressions as it would have in
lilypond
but I think not everyone using lilypond is familiar with grep and sed.
The argument that it needs 2 keystrokes on most keyboards is not
that important,
because is will be used mostly as a shortcut for longer terms, so I
will not write
c4 & & & , but c4 c c c
whereas <c e g>4 & & & ist faster to type than < c e g>4 < c e g > <
c e g > <c e g >
(and more readable, because otherwise I could just use the
copy&paste function of
my editor and forget about the rest)
3) why not use a "x" for eXpression, because the sign is meant not only
to repeat
"Qords", but everything reasonable?
Marc
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