Re: Dot-separated list as music function argument

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

... o dear ...
my mail was delayed one day. But thats not too bad, as the other answers
are much more helpful.
Still, wrapped predicates do not get any special handling by th parser.

Cheers, Jan-Peter

On 08.07.2014 13:58, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
> I also stumbled sometimes ove this behaviour, but I think it is not a
> "real" bug. If the parser has a list? predicate, it looks for
> dot-notation. But if it gets a custom predicate, it will not do so.
> Am I right, David?
> IIUC some predefined predicates (list?, string?, ly:duration?,
> ly:pitch?, ...) are handled in a special way to allow shorter input,
> but this is not "seen" by the parser, if they are wrapped in a custom
> predicate.