[PD] variable receive objects?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-05-14 05:02, John Harrison wrote:
> I thought [send13] and [receive13] from the ext13 library were for
> settable send and receive? Or am I misunderstanding the question?

for settable send i would _highly_ recommend to use the built-in [send].
whether you use [iem_r] or [receive13] is probably only a matter of
taste (but i think that most of ext13's objects are not so important
nowadays; and d13b is not so active in Pd land any more)

> 
> I've used those 2 objects a lot and thought they seemed pretty
> stable...
> 

that's because the "trivial" case (where receiving data and changing
the receive label are completely independent of each other
(stackwise)) won't create much of a problem.

it's easy to implement a feature and suddenly end up with a bug. it's
even common. both [recevie13] and [iem_receive] have probably gone
this route.
however, it's incredibly harder to implement a feature where you know
beforehand that you will open a can of worms and you don't know yet
how to close it (properly). that's the route [r] has gone.

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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