If kT[] = [1,2,3,4] is not possible, what about the C syntax?  kT[] = {1,2,3,4} , a 2D version could also be like {{1,2},{3,4}}

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Edward Costello



On Friday 31 May 2013 at 11:04, jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk wrote:

> Two questions that we thought might be good to seek the community views.
> 
> 1: Initialisation of arrays.
> 
> We now have statements like
> kT[] = fillarray(1,2,3,4)
> working. Some concern was expressed about the long-windedness on this. 
> It has been suggested that we use the simpler/shorter
> kT[] = array(1,2,3,4)
> or we could seek some other syntax. As far as we can tell the form
> kT[] = [1,2,3,4]
> is problematic, but we could (for effort) introduce something like
> kT[] = '[1,2,3,4]
> but is it worth it and would that be clear anyway?
> 
> No promises as to what we eventually do but what would be best for users?
> 
> 
> 2: Strings in Scores
> 
> The question relates to escaped characters. Currently the string
> 
> "abc\n"
> 
> is stored as 5 characters. If it is used in an instrument to print then
> the printkS or hatever interprets the \n as a newline.
> 
> The alternative is to store this as 4 characters and do the interpretation
> of escapes at read time. The down side is that to print a \ character
> this way would require 4 \s in the score (that is "\\\\"). However then "
> could be included in a string. It is unclear to me which is best.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> ==John ff
> 
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