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Re: preliminary GLISS discussions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: preliminary GLISS discussions |
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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:43:14 +0200 |
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
>
>> Yes, I noticed that - it would be good to make all functions operating
>> on arguments be verbs; similarly, \times could be renamed to something
>> more verby.
>
> Guess what the current proposal is, I think I heard \tuplet (ugh).
>
>>> Wouldn't it be helpful if from the syntax one could tell functions
>>> from postfix operators simple statements? In most languages function
>>> invocations are easy to spot. I think in Perl you can have functions
>>> look like dead statements, but that's probably just making the argument
>>> better.
>>
>> <offtopic>I find it interesting that you are giving Perl while we are
>> discussing readability.</offtopic>
>
> Ah, I was unclear. Right. LilyPond stands out /together/ with Perl in
> unreadability; these are the only two languages I know that can have
> functions look like statements.
Hm? Scheme, C, C++, awk, Lua...
--
David Kastrup
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, (continued)
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Janek Warchoł, 2012/08/29
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/30
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Graham Percival, 2012/08/30
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/31
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/08/31
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/31
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/08/31
- Re: preliminary GLISS discussions,
David Kastrup <=
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/31
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Graham Percival, 2012/08/31
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/08/31
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/08/31
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, David Kastrup, 2012/08/30
Re: preliminary GLISS discussions, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/31