Re: Adds dimension stencil command to correct with-dimension (issue 12957047)

[dak]

On 2013/08/26 10:18:04, mike7 wrote:

> I think Harm is right that, irrespective of documentation, users use
what's
> available.

If people meddle with internals instead of using provided API functions,
they deserve whatever they get.

> If we're going to add something, we want to be sure that it has a
> certain degree of permanency.  I don't think we can treat it as an
> implementation detail if it is publicly useable.

_Anything_ is "publicly useable".  If that's supposed to be a criterion,
we may not change LilyPond ever again.  We try to support programming
interfaces as long as it is feasible.  But the way those are internally
implemented is _not_ _ever_ guaranteed to remain the same.  If you mess
with internals, all bets are _off_.

Anything else would preclude us from improving how LilyPond works
internally.

https://codereview.appspot.com/12957047/