Hi list,
the new release of maxlib might be of some interest to anybody interested in 'not so self-modifying' Pd patches:
there are two objects, 'dist' and 'remote', which can be used to send data to 'receive' objects. 'dist' (or just 'd') allows to use 'connect <name>' messages to add names of receive objects to a list (and 'disconnect <name>' to remove them). The third new one is 'step' which is similar to line but has an additional parameter to specify the step size at which the output grows...
Find it at: http://www.akustische-kunst.de/puredata/maxlib/
Olaf