[PD] Value vs receive names

[Miller Puckette]

Yes...  there's a big difference between MaxAPd, which is that in
Max you can only bind one object to any given name; in Pd a table, a
send/receive pair, and a "value" (and other things) can all share a
symbol.   In Max, there was a hack whereby "value" and "send/receive"
actually shared one named object between the three of them.  So the
whole thing was a special case which didn't extend, for instance, to
tables.

The "correct" thing might have been to provide different namespaces to
each type of object.  In the way it is currently, the best thing is to
avoid having different kinds of objects sharing the same name.  (It's
probably bad style anyway...)

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I checked value in max, and of course value names live in a different
> namespace than send/receive names.  Thus the float method of vcommon
> class should not set the variable (as in my fix), but instead, should
> be a nop, if we care of maintaining some degree of compatibility.
> 
> But anyway, value in max stores any message, this is the main
> difference...
> 
> Krzysztof