Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

[David Kastrup]

Luca Fascione <l.fascione@gmail.com> writes:

> I think this is because it being an unquoted string (PERLfolk call these
> barewords) makes it feel more like an identifier, even if technically it's
> a string (for the time being).
> It also has some advantages for example it's easier to work with names
> being always unquoted when you're grepping for them, kinda scenario
>
> I think things that work like language-level names, for this reason, should
> flow unquoted, even if this requires effectively supporting barewords.

LilyPond's input syntax treats strings and unquoted words identical in
most circumstances: essentially you can use quote marks to have things
interpreted as a single word that would otherwise be split into several
syntactic entities or be considered a notename (for example).

-- 
David Kastrup