[PD] Varying a "send" destination

[Joseph Zitt]

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 02:30, sme wrote:
> hi,
> the dynamically sending is done with a message beginning with a semicolon
> (;). a semicolon changes the destination of a message to the symbol
> following the semicolon:
> [;fred 999(
> would send the number 999 to the (receive-)object fred. the semicolons
> clears the "current destination" (usually the outlet of the message objct)
> and redirects messages to the object "fred". the destination must be a
> symbol, ... with [pack s 0] you can go innto a message [;$1 $2( and the $1
> will be replaced with the destination-symbol and the $2 with a float (or
> what you will want to send).
>

Hmmm.... when I try to create an object "; $1 $2" (also trying it with
$1-r and $1r, with and without the space after the semicolon, and with
and without explicitly putting that "(" after the "$2"), I get a
"couldn't create" message in the console window. Am I misunderstanding
something about the notation?
 
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