Re: Vibrato (wavy lines) notation

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2022-01-14 at 20:41 +0100, Valentin Petzel wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> 
> The file you’ve given us has a lot of nonsensical quoting in lines
> 149-153.
> 
> Basically `(path ...) is already quasi-quoted, so there is no reason
> to quote 
> the symbol round (as it is already quoted). Also you will get an
> error for 
> line 150 where we have
> 
> `(,@',(concatenate path-final))
> 
> So we first quasi-quote something that is already quasi-quoted, then
> we create 
> a list, use an unquote splice operator (,@), which basically
> evaluates the 
> expression to a list and then gives the entries of the list instead
> of the 
> list (note we are CREATING a list first just to splice something into
> it – 
> instead of this we can simply do ,(concatenate path-final)), then we
> are 
> quoting the whole thing we just unquoted again to add another
> unquote, which 
> does not work as the last quote was not a quasi-quote.
> 
> So to get it to work closest to what’s in the file we’d need to do
> 
> (,@`,(concatenate path-final))
> 
> Or alternatively
> 
> ,`(,@`,(concatenate path-final))
> 
> But much more intelligent would be simply doing this:
> 
> ,(concatenate path-final)
> 
> I have appended a fixed version of your file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Valentin

Thank you and Jean Abou for your quick and insightful replies - my
score is once more typesetting beautifully.

Richard