I think this change could wait until the more urgent issues (e.g., graphics updates) get resolved, since there are perfectly adequate workarounds for people wanting to load arrays live from disk and swap them into tabx~ objects...
well, i don't think the workaround is really elegant ... i mean we try to make pd a professional software and we are in the 21st century ...
i'd like to have a clean solution ... preferable in stable, but i on the other hand i'm not going to wait for another year, since i'd like to have a fully working system by the end of this decade, no matter if it's called pure data or pure devil ;-)
cheers ... tim