<div dir="ltr">Thank you all for your responses! I think I've found a solution that can work. Basically what I did was create an abstraction where the first argument is $0 and has a receive object inside with the name $1-parent. It was right under my nose the whole time, but thank you all for helping me sniff it out!<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Francis<br><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:55 PM Christof Ressi <<a href="mailto:info@christofressi.com">info@christofressi.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>changing the receiver is dangerous (as in: could crash your system).</pre>
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Yes. Actually, I've experimented with different ways to make it
safe, see:<p></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/614" target="_blank">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/614</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/849" target="_blank">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/849</a></p>
<p>I think the second version is not too unreasonable.<br>
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<p>Christof</p>
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<div>On 25.03.2020 17:27, IOhannes m zmölnig
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<pre>On 3/25/20 5:04 PM, Ingo wrote:
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<pre>If you don't have any problem with using externals you can use [iemlib/iem_send].
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<pre>what's that for?
i mean: what is the advantage over [send] (without arguments)?
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<pre>That's what I use. There is also a [iem_receive] in case that you
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<pre>changing the receiver is dangerous (as in: could crash your system).
gfmdasr
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