Thanks to David Kastrup’s work there’s now much less need to use
scheme syntax in overrides etc. (e.g. the dot syntax instead of #' and
no longer needing # for numbers). This has really simplified things
for users.
As another small step along these lines, would it make sense to free
booleans from the ##t and ##f syntax? Compare:
\override Context.Grob.property = ##t
\override Context.Grob.property = ##f
\override Context.Grob.property = \true
\override Context.Grob.property = \false
Providing \true and \false would (1) allow users to stay in familiar
LilyPond syntax (avoiding the awkward double ## that’s unintuitive to
new users) and (2) improve readability by using the whole word. (I
for one find it hard to quickly see the difference between ##f and ##t
at a glance.)
Implementation would be trivial, of course:
true = ##t
false = ##f
Thoughts?