Re: why recommend \relative to take a "c"?

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:24:01PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> > A good reason would be that it would allow \relative to be removed
> > from the parser: currently we need two parser rules to cater for both
> > cases, whereas deprecating \relative { } would allow the command to be
> > implemented as a music function instead.
> 
> Please, please don't. To me, having the ability to use \relative
> without specifying a pitch is (and should remain) a feature, not a
> bug. Yeah, I know, that requires parsing, yadda yadda. We can live
> with it.

We can also live without it.  If it simplifies the parser without
impacting the program functionality at all, I think it's worth it.

Opinions to the contrary will be considered by people who have
worked on the parser.

- Graham