Hi,

Thomas Sivertsen wrote:

So, If I have a send like [s $0-mySend], it will only be sent within the abstraction? That's nifty.

Yes, it is. It's the pd way of saying: "private" or "local". It works like this: $0 gets replaced by a unique number for every *abstraction* (== every patch *file*) it is used in.

The next cool thing that you will find out, is that you can do things to this innocent little $0 number. For example you can send it, you can pass it around as abstraction argument and so on, and on the way you can drill little holes into your local space.

There are a lot of (dirty) tricks possible with $0. Don't overdo it. ;)

Ciao

Frank Barknecht