<a href="http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2004-12/003428.html">http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2004-12/003428.html</a><div><br></div><div>Essentially, being able to send a message to the current canvas in vanilla-pd without naming it, "this" in the current context is similar to the Java concept of "this".</div>
<div><br></div><div>If Miller wants to remove [namecanvas], just give us a "this" expression! What about $! ?</div><div><br>~Brandon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:<br>
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iirc, the reason for obsoleting [namecanvas] is that it allows the dynamic patching engine to get into an inconsistent (probably crashing) state (true, there are other things that allow this as well, without getting obsoleted).<br>
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Especially, you can crash pd using the thing that is supposed to be replacing namecanvas, using a total of 3 objects. So, the reason for obsoleting [namecanvas] is bogus. Here's an attachment for demonstrating that.<div class="im">
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anyhow, [namecanvas] has no concept of "this" either.<br>
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What's a concept of "this", to you ? It seems that we don't agree on this... we're not using the same vocabulary.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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