Proposal: Optional Named Arguments for Notes

[Steven Yi]

Hi All,

I've been thinking about some use cases for some instrument designs of
mine and have been contemplating optional named arguments for notes.
The idea I had was something like:

i1 0 4 3 articulation=4 label="test"

with instrument code such as:

instr 1
ival arg "articulation", 0  ; where 0 is a default value
Sval arg "label", "" ; where "" is a default
endin

This would be per-note values, and would be carried over when notes are tied.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!
steven


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[Adam Puckett-2]

That would mean a potential rewrite of sread.c to accomodate for
argument names like this. Remember the score is not parser with
Flex/Bison.

On 2/7/12, Steven Yi <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been thinking about some use cases for some instrument designs of
> mine and have been contemplating optional named arguments for notes.
> The idea I had was something like:
>
> i1 0 4 3 articulation=4 label="test"
>
> with instrument code such as:
>
> instr 1
> ival arg "articulation", 0  ; where 0 is a default value
> Sval arg "label", "" ; where "" is a default
> endin
>
> This would be per-note values, and would be carried over when notes are
> tied.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks!
> steven
>
>
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> csound"
>
>

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[Steven Yi]

Yes, but that's not an issue.  Either updating sread or reimplementing
scores with flex/bison isn't going to interfere as things are going to
change up quite a bit all around for Csound 6.  I'm more interested in
comments on the syntax and mechanism of this, if anyone has
alternative suggestions or can see it useful for themselves as well.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Adam Puckett <[hidden email]> wrote:

> That would mean a potential rewrite of sread.c to accomodate for
> argument names like this. Remember the score is not parser with
> Flex/Bison.
>
> On 2/7/12, Steven Yi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been thinking about some use cases for some instrument designs of
>> mine and have been contemplating optional named arguments for notes.
>> The idea I had was something like:
>>
>> i1 0 4 3 articulation=4 label="test"
>>
>> with instrument code such as:
>>
>> instr 1
>> ival arg "articulation", 0  ; where 0 is a default value
>> Sval arg "label", "" ; where "" is a default
>> endin
>>
>> This would be per-note values, and would be carried over when notes are
>> tied.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> steven
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>>             https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
>> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
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>> csound"
>>
>>
>
>
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>

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[Tarmo Johannes-2]

Hello,
It seems  a very welcome option to me - makes the score more readable and one does not need to worry in which p-field which parametwr sits.
Of course it would mean more typing and possible typos and with very many arguments it will become clumsy, but overall I personally like this idea very much!
Tarmo

On 07.02.2012 18:38, "Steven Yi" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi All,

I've been thinking about some use cases for some instrument designs of
mine and have been contemplating optional named arguments for notes.
The idea I had was something like:

i1 0 4 3 articulation=4 label="test"

with instrument code such as:

instr 1
ival arg "articulation", 0  ; where 0 is a default value
Sval arg "label", "" ; where "" is a default
endin

This would be per-note values, and would be carried over when notes are tied.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!
steven


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