Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

[lilypond]

Comment #1 on issue 2072 by address@hidden: Add proper complex variables to  
Lilypond
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2072

Well, I have to take back that particular syntax since it could not be made  
to work: detecting assignment would require seeing the = as a lookahead  
token, and once we see a different lookahead token, it is too late to  
inject an expression token into the input stream since the parser has  
already made decisions based on the lookahead token.  So one would have to  
use something like
\put \violin1 { ... }
for assignment and \violin1 for accessing it, or
\violin1 = { ... }
for assignment and \get\violin1 for accessing it.  Either case, the  
decision between assignment and use can be made without looka raising its  
ugly head.

It may be possible to use the somewhat more natural syntax \set \violin1  
{ ... } as well, but that would add another unrelated meaning to \set.