[PD] Changing Send/Receive Names After Instantiation

[oliver]

Christof Ressi wrote:
> Check out the following discussion on GitHub: 
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/604
> 
> TL;DR: if you unbind a symbol from a receiver while sending to the 
> symbol, Pd can crash because you modify the bind list while iterating 
> over it.
> 
> Personally, I've been using [iem_receive] in some projects and didn't 
> run into problems, but only because I avoid the case described above. 

Thanks Christof for the explanation !

@IOhannes: i think this should be noted in the helpfile.


> Dynamically destroying objects is even more dangerous ;-)

Bummer ... another thing i do quite often ;-)

Since i am not a programmer: how would i decode that twinkle emoji in 
your sentence ?

does it mean:

a.) be happy that you survived so far, because you're really on mined 
territory here ...

b.) i know it's not encouraged, but as long as you don't tell anybody ...



sorry ... getting a little anxious these days ...   ;-)

best

oliver