David,
On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote:
Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> writes:
David,
So your first statement:
I get a GUILE error on line 5
$(let
was wrong, and my guess
I don't. Copy and paste error?
concerning your use of Paul's converted code was correct. Like with
_any_ material prepared for an older version of LilyPond, you have to
run convert-ly on it before using it. Which is just what Paul did in
order to arrive at "his" version. Yes, this rewrites the Scheme
expression.
OK, lesson learned - obviously not the sort of behaviour I am used to
with other languages . .
Other languages will also complain about copy and paste errors.
It wasn't a copy and paste error - I proved that by redoing it, diffing
etc - it was ONLY the version issue.
You
don't make things easier for other people if your reports don't match
what you are actually doing,
That is incorrect, I reported exactly what I did - I got a GUILE error
(on an old snippet version) - I probably should have posted the code,
then it would have been clear straight away - but it wasn't a copy and
paste problem.
even if you think that this "should" not
make a difference. If things were doing everything you think they
"should", you would not be having problems in the first place.
That is a fair comment in general does not apply in this case - the fact
is that I hadn't remembered the conversion thing and if I had, there
wouldn't have been an issue . . and it is NOT unreasonable for someone
coming from other coding regimes not to have upper in their minds: that
ALL old code has to be converted - this is unusual situation.
Seems like I forgot to point out the importance of bringing your
versions up to the new syntax in the release announcement for 2.18. At
any rate, see
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/why-does-the-syntax-change_003f.html>.
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au
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