Re: Shorthand for \repeat unfold for individual notes

[Aaron Hill]

On 2023-01-23 3:46 pm, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> a8**3 is 5 key strokes.
> a8 8 8 is 6 key strokes.
> In exchange for saving one key stroke, I have a new operator to 
> remember
> (and get confused about) and to maintain changes to the lexer and 
> parser.

It's not all about saving key strokes, but documenting intent and 
removing code duplication.


> I get the lack of utility of \repeat unfold (14 keystrokes) for short 
> music
> expressions (like a single note).  But I don't think that ** is 
> intuitive
> enough to use it.
> If there were an alternative operator that would not mess up lookahead 
> and
> would not suffer with the confusion between * and ** (people already 
> think
> * does your proposed **), I could be convinced.

Well, blame my email program, as it truncated my original post.  I had 
intended to fully call out that ** is exponentiation in some language, 
thus might not be the best symbol.

But this discussion is quickly devolving into needless dissection of 
details.  If you object at the high-level, let us not waste time at the 
low-level.


-- Aaron Hill