[PD] datastruct newbie mistake

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> To me, the "-1" flag is really not needed, but then I might be missing 
> something... something like: a t_gpointer is not a weakref to a t_scalar, 
> it's a weakref to a t_canvas with an extra unsafe pointer to the t_scalar, 
> so the only way you can delete the t_scalar safely is by first deleting 
> all t_gpointers that refer to it, but that's not possible... anyone 
> correct me if I'm wrong. (I'll touch that code again eventually, but maybe 
> not this year)

Late answer: It is already perfectly possible to delete a scalar in
edit mode: Select it and press Backspace. What's missing is a way to
do this though other means, e.g. by a message to the pointer or though
a "disappend" object.

Ciao
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