Re: how to modify `afterGraceFraction` mid-score?

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>>> you can use `set!`:
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> Thanks!
>
>>> But note that this may cause race conditions, [...]
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> Please explain and/or give an example.
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>> The global variable afterGraceFraction has bothered me for some time
>> now.  Shouldn't this be a context property?  [...]
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> I guess that David has thought about that...
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>> (Of course, the current implementation of afterGrace makes this
>> comparatively hard to achieve, since the fraction is used for
>> determining the length of a skip IIRC.)
>
> ...and came to the conclusion that a global variable is the easiest
> solution :-)

I refuse that honor.  afterGraceFraction was introduced with

commit 4e39a726c0dd6db9d2f590cc05daa907115bb916
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date:   Sun Nov 28 17:33:34 2004 +0000

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and all I did was to provide an optional argument to \afterGrace to be
able to forego that effectively hardcoded wart.  Optional music function
arguments were not a thing in 2004.

-- 
David Kastrup