Re: Termination of variable definitions

[Anthonys Lists]

On 19/04/2016 21:55, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-04/msg00465.html
>
> > ... But it's recursive.
> what does that mean?  - J.W.
Recursion: See "Recursion".

To take the violin example,

violin = \new Staff {
  \relative {
    a'4 b c b
  }
}

"violin" contains a "\new Staff { ... }" expression.

But "Staff" contains a "\relative { ... }" expression

and "relative" contains a music expression "a'4 b c b"

It's turtles all the way down :-)

Cheers,
Wol