Like Steven I find the out-of-order UDO section confusing.

Options:

1: what I have -- automatic including of a directory

2: new directive #includeUDOs to do same as 1 but in a controlled place

3: As we have now with user explicit #include; equivalent to when I  
taught C I tod them to incant #include <stdio.h> as the first line --  
and explained it much later when we had function, protocols and the  
preprocessor

4: Add <CsUDO> section and write a lot of code.  Then equivalent of 1  
or 2 is possible (and will this section only allow UDOs?  That makes  
it harder as well.

5:  Whatever I missed.

Naturally I have a liking for 1 as that means no work!  Actually I  
think 2 is the best, but whatever....

==John ff


Quoting Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@ear.ie>:

> Thanks for your feedback Steven. I can see your point about the order
> of processing. I guess it could lead to some confusion. However, I'd
> rather not have to teach project management to my first year students
> who have zero experience with programming :) I'd love to use UDOs more
> in my teaching, but without #includes they bloat orchestra sections to
> the extent that it's often hard to find instrument definitions. How
> about something like this which makes it explicit that we are
> inserting code from another section of the Csd file:
>
> <CsoundSynthesizer>
> <CsInstruments>
> using CsUDO
>
> instr 1
> a1 Oscil 1, 200
> out a1
> endin
>
> </CsInstruments>
> <CsScore>
> i1 0 10
> </CsScore>
> <CsUDO>
> opcode Oscil, a, kk
> kamp, kcps      xin
> a1      vco2 kamp, kcps
>         xout a1
>         endop
> </CsUDO>
> </CsoundSynthesizer>
>
> I'm not sure about the word 'using', as you might already have ideas
> for that keyword with regards to future developments, but 'import',
> 'expand', or 'inline' might do just a well. Do you still see too many
> issues with the above solution?
>



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