On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 12:42 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
What the patch is doing is deleting an object. The message causing
the
deletion was triggered by (a message that was triggered by[...])
that
object, so what? There's nothing semantically incorrect in doing that.
There is. You may be missing some implications of Pd's "depth first message passing" as described in the manual, chapter "2.3.2. depth first message passing": [1]
i wouldn't say that committing suicide is illegal, just because there is an easy explanation / workaround or the implementation of pd is buggy.
it somehow reminds me of the old jokes beginning with "if cars would be built like software is written" ...
tim
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