oliver wrote: ...
if a [send] object and a [coll] have the same name, "coll" seems to be getting all messages put into the [send] object as a message and thus reporting an error on the command line.
this is very unfortunate, but using a separate symbol table for colls would break compatibility, because Max does not allow to reuse coll names in sends and receives. The error message should state this explicitly, though...
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