Re: Autobeaming

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Samstag, 2. Januar 2010 00:35:16 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
>> On 1/1/10 10:27 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> OK, point taken.  I'll come up with a different name for the music
>> >> function.  Do you have any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >> How about \pushTimeSignatureSetting and \popTimeSignatureSetting?
>> >
>> > Since we can have a push without a pop, that makes a somewhat
>> > uncomfortable pairing.
>> 
>> Why is this more uncomfortable than override without a revert?
>
> Please don't use push/pop. These are computer science terms for
> queues,

No, for stacks.  And push without pop involves the picture of an
imbalanced stack.  It's like ending a book in a story within a story
which ends without going back to the top level.  Disconcerting.

And yes, I know Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.

-- 
David Kastrup