Issue 1406 in lilypond: renaming StreamEvent

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New issue 1406 by v.villenave: renaming StreamEvent
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1406

This issue has been discussed before:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-07/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-07/msg00448.html

When looking at the following page, you'll notice that StreamEvent is the  
only item that's CamelCased and not hyphenated like a lisp-identifier:
http://lilypond.org/doc/latest/Documentation/internals/music-classes

The obvious fix would be to rename StreamEvent into stream-event in  
define-event-classes.scm (i.e. hardcoding the hyphenated name, unlike other  
music events that are automatically converted).

However (from what I understand), StreamEvent is not limited to music event  
types.  Therefore, one could argue that it would be more consistent to drop  
the "Event" thing instead, and replace it with "StreamToken"  
or "StreamElement" or StreamWhathaveyou.