Re: Variable names

[David Kastrup]

Richard Sabey <address@hidden> writes:

> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>The core problem is -- how do you distinguish between a2 c (two
> notes) and
>>a2c (you want it to be a variable) - currently it will be two notes.
>
> I might have missed something here, but: in what circumstances can a
> pitch-name and a variable-name both be legal?
>
> Inside a music expression, if it comes immediately after a backslash,
> it can't be a pitch-name, and if it doesn't come immediately after a
> backslash, then it can't be a variable-name.

Hm?  How do you assign to variables then?

> Not inside a music expression, it can't be a pitch-name.

You can start a file with pitches.

-- 
David Kastrup