Re: *unspecified* as a context property value

2025-01-04 Thread David Kastrup
Saul Tobin writes: > ly:context-property-where-defined returns differently depending on if > a property is unset or explicitly set to '() – I'm guessing this is > one of the things you had in mind by "not really pretty"? I think one of the uglier things is that ly:context-property can be given a

Re: *unspecified* as a context property value

2025-01-04 Thread Saul Tobin
ly:context-property-where-defined returns differently depending on if a property is unset or explicitly set to '() – I'm guessing this is one of the things you had in mind by "not really pretty"? On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Dan Eble writes: > > > Old-timers, > > > > Fo

Re: *unspecified* as a context property value

2025-01-04 Thread David Kastrup
Dan Eble writes: > Old-timers, > > For some reason, I had it in my head that a context property could not > be set to *unspecified*, but now that I have looked again, I see that > that is false. It is possible to set a property to *unspecified* and > mask the value from the enclosing context, ju

*unspecified* as a context property value

2025-01-04 Thread Dan Eble
Old-timers, For some reason, I had it in my head that a context property could not be set to *unspecified*, but now that I have looked again, I see that that is false. It is possible to set a property to *unspecified* and mask the value from the enclosing context, just like setting any other