On Don, 2014-04-03 at 16:13 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
thanks for explaining it all
imagine trying to design something like that which is also backwards compatible with the crude namespacing tools that already exist in Pd. It's not possible
ok, here's where I'm a bit confuse. You're not saying it'd be impossible to make messages inherit the $0 value, are you?
Wow, you keep beating that horse after its dead for quite a while by now. It is _not_at_all_ about technical difficulties (probably it is indeed difficult, I don't really know). It's about breaking consistency. Expanding arguments of the parent is different from expanding to elements of incoming messages.
While I understand your frustration to some degree, I don't think this debate is going lead anywhere, simply because of that fact that I don't believe any dev will deliberately introduce inconsistencies just for the sake of convenience. And yes, I understand the convenience of $0 expanding to the canvas-local ID and yes, it would probably make patching simpler. I am very much with you in this respect.
Roman