[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1518030 ] subpatch clearing itself crashes Pd
Tim Blechmann
tim at klingt.org
Sun Feb 11 14:55:48 CET 2007
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 12:42 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > What the patch is doing is deleting an object. The message causing
> the
> > deletion was triggered by (a message that was triggered by[...])
> that
> > object, so what?
> > There's nothing semantically incorrect in doing that.
>
> There is. You may be missing some implications of Pd's "depth first
> message passing" as described in the manual, chapter "2.3.2. depth
> first message passing": [1]
i wouldn't say that committing suicide is illegal, just because there is
an easy explanation / workaround or the implementation of pd is buggy.
it somehow reminds me of the old jokes beginning with "if cars would be
built like software is written" ...
tim
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