[PD] self-modifying and dynamic patching

[dmotd]

i received this rationale from miller not too long ago for the hesitation in 
including iohannes' methods:

"Anyhow, I'm trying to think of a better mechanism for allowing abstractions
to have variable numbers of inlets/outlets, so I'm hoping initbang won't
be necessary in the long run.

closebang, though, will probably be needed in some form or other."

so it's obviously still a work in progress, regardless initbang/closebang are 
at least fairly consistent with constructor/destructor methods in other 
languages. we'll see where this goes.

cheers,
dmotd

IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> Charles Henry wrote:
> > There is a way to write the code for a "new" or "create" routine in
> > your class via [loadbang],
>
> where did you get that impression from?
> [loadbang] does _not_ work as a constructor (it's too late).
> that's why i had written [initbang], which unfortunately never made it
> into Pd.
>
> > so you need a way to code a "free" or
> > "delete" routine as well.
>
> that's why i had written [closebang], which (surprise!) never made it
> into Pd either
>
>
> mfga.s
> IOhannes
>
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