Re: A language reference (was: lily in scheme)

2004-05-05 Thread David Brandon
On May 5, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote: Formal language reference sounds just good. It would show explicitly that LilyPond has a coherent syntax. The value of the language reference would increase a lot, if there would also be given the version indication: (since 1.7.23) That

Re: A language reference (was: lily in scheme)

2004-05-05 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:15:12 -0400 David Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 4, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > > > > > Sounds like an interesting plan, but have a look at the existing > > documentation first, I think there is already quite some reference > > documentation avai

Re: A language reference (was: lily in scheme)

2004-05-04 Thread David Brandon
On May 4, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: This is a good initiative. If you really want formal, you could consider writing the documentation as doc strings, at least for the music expressions. See scm/define-music-types.scm for examples. Aha, excellent! I will see what I can come up wi

Re: A language reference (was: lily in scheme)

2004-05-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On May 4, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > > > > > Sounds like an interesting plan, but have a look at the existing > > documentation first, I think there is already quite some reference > > documentation available. (from the website: follow the links to > >

Re: A language reference (was: lily in scheme)

2004-05-04 Thread David Brandon
On May 4, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Stefaan Himpe wrote: Sounds like an interesting plan, but have a look at the existing documentation first, I think there is already quite some reference documentation available. (from the website: follow the links to documentation, then program reference) Well, yes,