Re: duration and pitch in a function

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Thanks for that hint! I will keep that in mind for future development.
I actually use 2.14 for my allday work and create my extensions according to 
that syntax, because I want to be able to produce sheets day by day without 
stumbling over suprisingly upcoming changes.
I know, I should have a devel (2.15 ... 2.17 ...) on my machine to be prepared 
for the next release.
Paolo's excercise would be solved differently by me: I would use a ly:music? 
argument and copy and augment that. And I hope, ly:music? arguments will not be 
broken in future releases ;-)

Cheers,
Jan-Peter

Am 11.12.2011 um 09:45 schrieb David Kastrup:

> Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi Paolo,
>> 
>> this compiles in 2.14.2 on my machine:
>> --snip--
>> \version "2.14.2"
>> 
>> myFunction  = #(define-music-function (parser location foobar) (ly:duration?)
>>  (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (list
>>    (make-music 'EventChord 'elements (list 
>>      (make-music 'NoteEvent 'duration foobar 'pitch (ly:make-pitch 1 0 0))
>>    ))
>>  ))
>> )
>> 
>> {
>>      \myFunction #(ly:make-duration 2 0 1 1) r4
>> }
> 
> Yes, it would.  Unfortunately, it would not compile with the current
> version since the current version does not allow duration arguments to
> be specified in anything but duration syntax (along with pitches, they
> are one of two currently remaining special-cased argument types).
> 
> I really don't think that it is worth investing work into creating 2.14
> sources if you want to have music functions meddling with durations and
> other stuff in easily maintainable ways.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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