On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:02 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
How do I know which instance I am contacting?
you don't. that is the nature of send. you do not know who is listening. (but of course you know that)
And then, why is [namecanvas] marked as obsolete?
well, i keep asking this question since several years. (since i first discovered that [namecanvas] is marked obsolete.
Funny these two came in the same email.
It's not "funny", it's called "deliberate" and "on purpose".
[namecanvas] would allow you to easily send messages to instances of an abstraction using [namecanvas $0-canvas]. Then you have to track $0 for each instance so you know what's what. That's enough of a reason to keep [namecanvas] around.
Exactly.
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