Re: Should we be touching goops?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-06-06 6:34 pm, David Kastrup wrote:
> I saw no point in letting the division of Moments deliver a Moment like
> ly:moment-div does, so ly:moment-main fetches the resulting rational.
> Returning a Moment would be just meaningless.  While I objected to
> distinguishing time spans from time points by type, that does not mean
> that I am in favor of completely insane type relations for new
> functionality.

I had thought / would be a shorthand for ly:moment-div, but I can see 
why you opted for rational output.  As I stated, documentation would be 
critical to avoid confusion with such implicit type conversions.


> What may actually be a surprising simplification is
> <https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1404/diffs?commit_id=bafd55131495ad58d8c9eb4439f60c8789bc9dc8#98b870cc087eeb4becf470fa3ec9b05b85962f2f_224_213>

That is pretty cool.  I suppose if one knows (or infers) that iota uses 
+ behind the scenes, this should probably not be *too* surprising.


-- Aaron Hill