I could see an argument being added to clone that let clone manage a subpatch internally. It would be key to allow the transition between [pd subpatch name] and [clone 20 -i subpatch name], assuming "-i" is the flag, work without losing the subpatch contents.

On June 17, 2018 9:59:59 AM PDT, "IOhannes m zmölnig" <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
On 06/17/2018 03:27 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
I'd still like to be able to use clone to dynamically load [...] subpatches in the future

assuming that with "subpatches" you mean [pd] objects, how would you
imagine that to actually work?

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