Thank for explaining T and S types!  It's a lot clearer now for me. 

On 9/8/05, Istvan Varga <istvan_v@fibermail.hu> wrote:
> Steven Yi wrote:
> 
> > Well, using invalue/outvalue doesn't sound like a good idea for the
> > purpose I mentioned due to what you mentioned, and I seem to remember
> > Matt having something like string values in MacCsound now.
> 
> I think passing string values by invalue/outvalue in MacCsound is
> implemented using strset.
> 
> > I had done"csound -z1" and it's opcode signature showed "T" and not "S",
>  > and I didn't think they were compatible. Are they?
> 
> 'T' means a string or i-rate ('S' is string only, and 'U' is string, i-rate,
> or k-rate) input. So, if you specify a string as the channel name for invalue
> or outvalue, it will be used as it is; it does not matter if it is a constant
> in double quotes or {{ }}, or an S-rate variable. If you use an i-rate value
> as the channel name instead, it is converted to a string with sprintf().
> 
> All the following uses of invalue are equivalent:
> 
> Sfoo = "1"
> ichn = 1
> 
> k1  invalue "1"
> k2  invalue {{1}}
> k3  invalue Sfoo
> k4  invalue 1
> k5  invalue ichn
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