[maxmsp] ? Pd style $0 arguments

On 21 sept. 07, at 10:41, Owen Cannon wrote:

> My copy of MaxMSP just authorized this morning and I've spent the day 
> adapting from Pd. I've been searching tutorials and MaxMSP forum for a 
> convention like Pd's $0. In Pd, $0 used as part of an obj's creation 
> argument within a subpatch (ie. named send or receive) is replaced 
> with a random number. This allows several subpatches to maintain their 
> own namespace without recoding. Tried #0, to no avail. Incidentally, I 
> can't get #1, #2, ... to work either, I'd come across mention of this 
> convention on MaxMSPForums.

#0-#9 have to be at the beginning of symbols, so for instance [receive 
#1_foo] works, but [send bar#0] won't.

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