Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[David Kastrup]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
>
>> Yes, I noticed that - it would be good to make all functions operating
>> on arguments be verbs; similarly, \times could be renamed to something
>> more verby.
>
> Guess what the current proposal is, I think I heard \tuplet (ugh).
>
>>> Wouldn't it be helpful if from the syntax one could tell functions
>>> from postfix operators simple statements?  In most languages function
>>> invocations are easy to spot.  I think in Perl you can have functions
>>> look like dead statements, but that's probably just making the argument
>>> better.
>>
>> <offtopic>I find it interesting that you are giving Perl while we are
>> discussing readability.</offtopic>
>
> Ah, I was unclear.  Right.  LilyPond stands out /together/ with Perl in
> unreadability; these are the only two languages I know that can have
> functions look like statements.

Hm?  Scheme, C, C++, awk, Lua...

-- 
David Kastrup