Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

David Kastrup writes:

> What issues were raised?

Janek and Graham raised the `what is a music function / let's make
everything postfix' issue.  Han-Wen raised the issue of [nameless]
optional arguments.

>> instead of
>>
>>     \relative { a \parenthesize b c }
>>
>> we could have something* like
>>
>>     (relative { a (parenthesize b) c })
>>     relative ({a parenthesize (b) c})
>>
>> I don't think there are easy ways to combine or drop ( and }, ie have
>> something like
>>
>>    {relative a b c}
>>    foo = relative
>>    {foo a b c}
>>
>> Or the C-style equivalents.
>
> Who do we think to be doing a favor with that?

Well, that's the question.  This is also a good chance to, ahum,
once and for all decide on leaving things as they are.

Jan

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