Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

[Ian Hulin]

Hi David,
On 09/12/11 12:55, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Comment #2 on issue 2072 by address@hidden: Add proper complex
> variables to Lilypond 
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2072
> 
> After thinking about it, assignments are possible only in contexts
> where strings can't occur by themselves. So it should actually be
> possible to use the syntax violin1 = { ... } or less covert
> variants of specifying 1.
> 
> Of course, only after having declared violin as an array.
Two questions:
Which problem are we solving here, numbers as valid characters in Lily
identifiers, or providing some sort of arrays/vectors/subscripted
variables facility in Lily?
If it's the latter, how would we "declare violin as an array"?
Maybe
\array violin 2
and access it as
violin[1] = {...}
violin[2] = {...}
Or have you some other convention in mind?
Cheers,
Ian