Re: Scheme questions

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.11.2015 um 14:35 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Esteemed colleagues,
>>
>> There is suddenly a lot of activity in the area of Scheme questions
>> and answers (which is great!). Should we start a dedicated mailing
>> list <lilypond-scheme>, since it is quite a specialised area and the
>> topic may not be of interest to general lilypond engravers? Just an
>> idea. The list is starting to resemble Stack Overflow!
> Well, it's to be expected that a user mailing list contains questions,
> answers, solutions.  I don't really agree with your characterization of
> Scheme as a "quite specialised area" of LilyPond: it's a rather integral
> part of its workings and interfaces, quite different from the role, say,
> Lua plays in LuaTeX.  So I don't see much of a point in a separate
> mailing list.
>

I would also say this definitely belongs here. If anything we should try
to make use of it and retrieve knowledge from the occasion. I would be
happy if there would be even more explanation rather than examples. Of
course an example can help a lot, and just yesterday I wrote a reply
consisting of not more than one line of Scheme.

But anyway I think more resources about Scheme (and if only in the
lilypond-user archives) may serve as an opportunity to open that path to
more users.
I think that is worth more than reducing the traffic for people not
interested in the topic.

Urs