(slightly OT) I think [send], [receive] and [value] having settable order would be cool but I don't know how difficult it would be bc it's integrated w/ the symbol table.
Maybe it would be doable w/ some proxy.. then the proxy can get the symbol receive and send it to all of the same receive name objects in the right order.

@oid Yes..... a common problem.
The most complex patch I built contained this to maintain the order and keep my hair on my head.
David.

On the subject settable order (for [receive] at least), I was digging through iemguts today and noticed [oreceive], which uses a second argument to define a priority.

well, Pd 0.57 is coming out and [receive] now has an inlet, and there's a [list foreach] for iteration