[PD] nonlocal message passing scope

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Billy Stiltner <billy.stiltner at gmail.com>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at> 
>Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD] nonlocal message passing scope
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>I don't know if making it easier to do would be good for learning but it sure would be easier for doing. haha!


Well, if you had abstraction wrappers for [s]/[r], [throw~]/[catch~], [s~]/[r~], [v], and dialog box entries for the

"Put" menu array and iemguis (and possibly canvas properties), you wouldn't have to bother with $0 as a user. 

Plus a convenience abstraction to prefix a given symbol based on the scope you want, so that you can use it 

as a send-symbol inside message boxes.  I guess the sticking points are objects that take an array name as 

an argument-- in the majority of cases those are settable, so I guess the user could choose between 

loadbanging a symbol or just using $0-prefixes there.


There are probably other uses of $0 that I'm missing... [struct] names I guess, but there you're already 

punished for using $0 since it makes it impossible to reload scalar state.


-Jonathan


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>I try not to think about how that works. once I figured it out I wrote down what I learned and use it as a reference or I'll just go look in  a patch that I have used in and duplicate.
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