On Saturday 06 May 2006 19:07, David Akbari wrote:

> The way I see it, I would hate to spin my wheels making something 
> musical in a UDO with 64 outargs that will not compile with future 
> versions of canonical Csound.
> 
> I sincerely hope that if the number of outargs will not increase from 
> the present limit of 23, that we can look forward to a better solution 
> which will lend itself to a flexible expandability of UDOs without a 
> significant increase in the time required to allocate new notes in 
> instruments containing UDOs with > 23 outargs. Of course, in a future 
> version increment of the language as this is a problem that will 
> require a bit of thought to write code that will replace the current 
> static definitions and is non trivial.

You can already use the stack opcodes for virtually unlimited number
of arguments (more than 64 if needed), including strings, and not only
in user defined opcodes but also subinstruments. By the way, the current
limit is actually 24, not 23.

    opcode foo, 0, 0
k91, k92, k93, k94, k95, k96, k97, k98, k99, k100   pop
k81, k82, k83, k84, k85, k86, k87, k88, k89, k90    pop
k71, k72, k73, k74, k75, k76, k77, k78, k79, k80    pop
k61, k62, k63, k64, k65, k66, k67, k68, k69, k70    pop
k51, k52, k53, k54, k55, k56, k57, k58, k59, k60    pop
k41, k42, k43, k44, k45, k46, k47, k48, k49, k50    pop
k31, k32, k33, k34, k35, k36, k37, k38, k39, k40    pop
k21, k22, k23, k24, k25, k26, k27, k28, k29, k30    pop
k11, k12, k13, k14, k15, k16, k17, k18, k19, k20    pop
k01, k02, k03, k04, k05, k06, k07, k08, k09, k10    pop
    ...
    endop

    instr 1

    push  k01, k02, k03, k04, k05, k06, k07, k08, k09, k10
    ...
    push  k91, k92, k93, k94, k95, k96, k97, k98, k99, k100
    foo
    ...

    endin


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