hello folks,
it's been a couple of years since IOhannes submitted his patch for constructor/destructor routines.. as far as i know only pd-extended has picked up the patch. could miller please consider this for inclusion into his stable branch?
without the [initbang] / [closebang] objects, pd is crippled to a static application of the abstraction philosophy, making it impossible to dynamically create inlets/outlets based on an abstractions arguments. this is really a silly limitation that has already been solved and should be put into regular practice where ever possible.
while i understand that miller has been hesitant to include such functionality, i would prefer it to be an included but undocumented feature (much like the role that [namecanvas] presently takes) than not included at all.
anyhow, there's a chance this will fall on deaf ears, but i would just like to register my vote for permanent inclusion.
many thanks as always,
dmotd