Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/user/music-g...

[Graham Percival]

On 19-Aug-05, at 2:49 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > I think it's a good idea to continue using #up and #down.  This 
> > reinforces the general
> > form of
> > \override (engraver.)grob #'property = #value
>
> Hmm. There's still a question of style, in lily-library.scm we do
>
> (define-public UP 1)
> (define-public DOWN -1)
> (define-public CENTER 0)
>
> perhaps we should do #UP and #DOWN iso. #up and #down ?

1)  is #up likely to stop working in the future?  It works now, so 
evidently there's
a lowercase to uppercase translation happening somewhere.
2)  would it be faster to process #UP instead of #up (ie avoiding that 
translation) ?

If it would be slightly faster, then I'd say that we should change the 
definitions
in ly/* , but we should leave the input/* snippets (ie the user-viewed 
stuff)
alone.  #up is easier to type than #UP.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham