Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I think these changes sound scary, it is an additional hack in the
> parser machinery.

Why do you think so?  Sometimes syntactic sugar is essential to make
certain situations more comprehensible.  Just think of TeX's `=' mark
in things like

  \count\foo=1

which can be omitted.

> I think it would be cleaner if \times could be changed to a
> proper music function, e.g. as
> \tuplet 2 3 {...}
> This would remove rules from the parser instead of adding them.

You are thinking too mathematically IMHO.


    Werner