Re: Let ', ' separate symbol lists like '.' does (issue 290490043 by address@hidden)

[thomasmorley65]

On 2016/03/09 09:10:42, dak wrote:
> On 2016/03/08 23:28:37, thomasmorley651 wrote:

> >
> > I firstly had some concerns about problems arising from people being
tempted
> to
> > write additional spaces after the comma, though with:
> >
> > blub = #(define-void-function (arg)(list?) (write (map
symbol->string arg)))
> > \blub foo . bar . buzz
> >
> > I noticed no problem. Hence I expect no problems with commas as
well.

> Unfortunately, there is in lyricsmode.  As opposed to non-quoted stuff
starting
> with a '.', ',' is not special.  I considered changing that, but while
that
> would have allowed \blub foo , bar , buzz or even \blub foo ,bar ,buzz
it would
> not have helped with the much more important \blub foo, bar, buzz so
it is sort
> of pointless.  And we definitely do not want to split foo, into two
tokens in
> lyricsmode.  So in lyricsmode, we'd more or less be stuck with
foo,bar,buzz .

ok

> So all-in-all, it is a bit of a so-so improvement.  Its main
motivation for me
> really is not to have to use '.' for grouping numbers since it is
already used
> inside of numbers.  And it does make tag lists look nicer.  And
lyricsmode is
> not really overcrowded with music functions so this will likely not
become an
> issue all too often.

agreed



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