I'm new, so bear with me

I've created a visual abstraction that holds an array, with a bang to load a file into that array.

This works fine as long as I only put one of this object (my abstraction) in a patch. If I put two, the subsequent will load the data into the array of the first object.

I've realized that there is no such thing as closures or namespaces in Pd, am I right?

Is there a way to get around this, so I can put any number of this objects in a patch?

Sincerely, Velle

you could put $0 (unique nr for the patch/abstraction) somewhere in the array name. if you want to access the array from outside, you need to get the abstractions $0 though. (via loadbang and [$0])

Thanks for the hint, mnb.

I found some kind of tutorial on doing this: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1187-abstraction-why-use-etc

Not fantastic at all, it was even quite cryptic for me, but the best I could find.