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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