Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] default types in contextes

There is a longstanding enhancement issue on this
https://github.com/csound/csound/issues/323


Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland

On 27 Jul 2025, at 07:04, joachim heintz <[email protected]> wrote:

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hi all -

i am doing my first extended csound program (a generative sound
installation) with the amazing new features of current CS7.  it is such
a pleasure to work this way, and it is also so interesting to see how
big the impact of such a small change is that we can name variables now
without the leading i/k/a etc.

one desire arose while working this way:
would it be possible to assign the type of a variable automatically if
the context is unambiguous?  for instance:

      my_number = random:k(1,2)

here the variable my_number is obviously of type k.

or for p-field i would suggest to set i as default type, like

      freq = p4

in case there is another type, we can still write

      filename:S = p4

i have no idea whether this is possible and others agree, and if so, how
complicated it might be.  certainly nothing urgent.

      joachim