I've proposed this https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/828/commits/31d293142ed186766a95434e0d36164b193f3354

which is even better as it expands symbols, so "$$0_something" gets expanded, I do this in my [else/dollsym] object.

the problem is that [receive] can't set its name yet, we also have PRs for that. Both of these would be very useful in these situations. I use it in my GUI abstractions to set built in send/receive names.

cheers