Re: Syntax change proposal:

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:18 PM
>
>> The original proposal was to rule out 0. and .5 as real numbers.  This
>> will introduce foreseen problems: things will break where those had been
>> used (there are definitely uses of 0. in our own code base but not for
>> .5).  A few of those problems can be caught with convert-ly rules, but
>> those would be based on heuristics (like doing conversions when they
>> occur after = which should catch most existing cases).  Such heuristics
>> would, however, also catch legitimate uses like
>> 
>> \relative c' { b = 4. }
>> 
>> (quick: can you guess what this does?).
>
> :) Well, I guessed correctly the 4. would be interpreted as a duration
> in note mode, but I didn't know whether the = would muck it up.

So what makes it legitimate?  That's the interesting question...

> It doesn't.  It might be legitimate, but I don't think users will have
> used this construct very often.

-- 
David Kastrup