[PD-dev] bind abstraction-canvas to full classname

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Jan 16 09:52:52 CET 2006


On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:02 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > > How do I know which instance I am contacting?
> > you don't.
> > that is the nature of send. you do not know who is listening.
> > (but of course you know that)
> > 
> > > And then, why is [namecanvas] marked as obsolete?
> > well, i keep asking this question since several years. (since i first
> > discovered that [namecanvas] is marked obsolete.
> 
> Funny these two came in the same email.

It's not "funny", it's called "deliberate" and "on purpose".

> [namecanvas] would allow you to easily send messages to instances of an
> abstraction using [namecanvas $0-canvas].  Then you have to track $0 for
> each instance so you know what's what. That's enough of a reason to keep
> [namecanvas] around.

Exactly.

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