Yes there is a technical reason against your first macro.  The macros are expanded in a single pass (csound_prs) before read, so syntax that creates macros must be expanded.  I will have another look.

The other one is harder to consider.  Users can program it I think with existing score opcodes like b

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On Sep 18, 2017, 19:58, at 19:58, Luciano Zanatta  wrote:
>Hi
>I have some questions about the sintax of score loop.
>
>There's a technical reason for the kind of code below be illegal or
>it's
>just a design option?
>
>#define MACROWITHLOOP (nRep)
>#
>{$nRep
>
>some score statements
>
>}
>#
>
>$MACROWITHLOOP(2)
>$MACROWITHLOOP(5)
>$MACROWITHLOOP(3)
>
>Also, would be feasible have a third optional argument 'wait', which if
>used specify a time between loop repetitions?
>
>{NN Macro 5; wait 5 seconds before the loop repeats
>
>some code
>
>}
> Could these be feature requests?
>
>Cheers
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