Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> LilyPond's input language has no representation for c-natural
> as opposed to c-unkeyed-yet. Any kind of implementation would be doomed 
> without
> that, anyway.  Once you have that, it really becomes a tricky question
> of where c-unkeyed-yet would get its final pitch.  And how this is
> supposed to behave with regard to transposition: transposing half a step
> up and down again should be a do-nothing, so you'd actually also need a
> cis-unkeyed-yet .  Do we have a headache yet?

\relative gives me a headache.

My point is how is this really different, for those who want to give themselves 
headaches?
Your answer doesn’t convince me it’s all that different — only unadvisable.

Cheers,
Kieren.