Re: c#(+6 2)

[Gianmaria Lari]

On 11 March 2018 at 10:58, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:

> Just to understand how does it work the relation between scheme and
> lilypond. Why this does not work?
>
> \version "2.19.81"
> { c#(+6 2) }
>
> I would expect this compile to
>
> \version "2.19.81"
> { c8 }

So much wrong with this... 

First, (+6 2) calls 6 as function on 2.
That doesn't work.  You need (+ 6 2) here.

yes, this was just a typo.

 

Then Scheme expressions written using # in the middle of music are
expected to be music expressions.

  If you want to insert an actual
duration, you need to write it preceded with $ so that it can have
different type (and trigger different syntactic rules).

But $8 is not a duration.  $(ly:make-duration 3 0) would be a duration.

How does it work ?

Originary I thought that before source compilation, there was a step where to replace scheme expressions with their evaluation, like a preprocessor; that's why I tried c#(+ 6 2). But ok, it's clear it doesn't work in this way.

Is this handled by the lilypond parser that create a parse tree and then according position in the tree and # or $ it expects different types?

Thank you, g.