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Re: Iterators in Scheme?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Iterators in Scheme? |
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Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:16:28 +0200 |
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Niols <niols@niols.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to dive a bit into the way LilyPond works, and I was
> wondering about iterators. The documentation contains a page named
> “iterator tutorial” [1] but this is only a placeholder for a future
> tutorial. (I very much understand that it is painful to write such
> tutorials and I am not here to complain of anything!)
>
> [1]
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/contributor/iterator-tutorial
>
> The only thing the page actually says is “Iterators are routines
> written in C++ that process music expressions and sent the music
> events to the appropriate engravers and/or performers.”
>
> Must I understand that it is not possible to write iterators in Scheme
> and that they have to be written in C++?
Yes.
> Must I then understand that, if I wanted to write iterators for a
> personal use, I would have to recompile LilyPond myself?
Yes, or reuse one of the existing ones. Some are comparatively generic.
> If it is actually possible to write an iterator in Scheme, would
> anyone have an example to show me or a link to give me?
>
> Thank you so much in advance.
What do you want to achieve?
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David Kastrup