>there may be some temptation for offering a >LilyPond-native syntax for that.
Pretty please? It's the feature I've been missing the most in lilypond. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:48 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jacques Menu <jacques.m...@tvtmail.ch> writes: > > > Le 15 janv. 2014 à 17:15:53, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> a écrit : > > > >> Peter Bjuhr <peterbj...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >>>> Peter Bjuhr <peterbj...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I've started using global variables more recently but can highly > >>>>> recommend it! > >>>> Just don't let any programmers hear that. > >>>> > >>> > >>> David, I'm sorry; I must again ask you what you mean? Is this a joke > >>> I'm missing like the previous time with the biblical quote? > >> > >> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_variable>, 2nd paragraph. > > > > > > Isn’t what you call an LP global variable actually a macro, as in > > LaTeX? > > No. A macro is a textual replacement with parameters (in Scheme, a > "macro" is something entirely different but similar). > > Something like > > #(define-music-function ... #{ ... #}) > > comes close, and there may be some temptation for offering a > LilyPond-native syntax for that. > > At any rate, all proper LilyPond variables are actually global > variables. When programming in Scheme, you have recourse to local > variables. LilyPond is extensible in Scheme, but it does not in itself > constitute a _programming_ language. Assignments are likely the most > programming-like constructs it offers, but it's not like you can put > them in a loop or something without reverting to Scheme. > > -- > David Kastrup > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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