Re: Implicit nonsense

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:47 PM
>
>> What would you expect the following to do?
>>
>> \new StaffGroup { \relative c' { \relative c' { c2 } c } }
>
> It does pretty much what I expected, but then I have been explaining
> the drawbacks of implicit contexts for some years now.
>
>> I can't imagine _any_ situation where this behavior would make sense.
>
> No, me neither, but leaving Voice contexts to be implied usually works
> well, eg with Staff rather than StaffGroup.

Why would you want to have the above end up in _two_ different voices?
If you write

\new Staff { \relative c' { \relative c' { c2~ } c } }

the tie just disappears.  So I can't say this works well with "Staff
rather than StaffGroup".

-- 
David Kastrup