[PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> iirc, the reason for obsoleting [namecanvas] is that it allows the 
> dynamic patching engine to get into an inconsistent (probably crashing) 
> state (true, there are other things that allow this as well, without 
> getting obsoleted).

Especially, you can crash pd using the thing that is supposed to be 
replacing namecanvas, using a total of 3 objects. So, the reason for 
obsoleting [namecanvas] is bogus. Here's an attachment for demonstrating 
that.

> anyhow, [namecanvas] has no concept of "this" either.

What's a concept of "this", to you ? It seems that we don't agree on 
this... we're not using the same vocabulary.

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| Mathieu Bouchard ------------------------------ Villeray, Montréal, QC
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#N canvas 595 0 450 300 10;
#N canvas 0 0 450 300 crap 1;
#X obj 134 90 s pd-crap;
#X msg 134 64 clear;
#X connect 1 0 0 0;
#X restore 82 89 pd crap;