Re: Issue 1670 in lilypond: Allow numbers in variable names: violin1mvt2 = c'

[lilypond]

Comment #6 on issue 1670 by address@hidden: Allow numbers in  
variable names: violin1mvt2 = c'
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1670

I understand.  But that gives one more special case:  "You don't normally  
need to put quotes around the variable name in a variable definition.  But  
if you want to include a number, you do need to put quotes."

I don't like the special case.  And we try (in our examples) to avoid  
having the user need to understand special cases.  So we'd probably need to  
make a rule for documentation that said "Variables being defined should be  
surrounded by quotes".  And then every variable definition in our manuals  
would have quotes around it.  And it wouldn't be a simple convert-ly rule  
to write.

All for a minor benefit.  Our language has a well-defined rule for  
variables: letters only.  It works just fine, as far as I can see.