The [receive~] object has the capability to change the name of the signal by sending it a 'set' message (see screen print). Is there some reason why the [receive] object doesn't have the same capability? I don't see how any existing code would be broken if this feature was added.

In lieu of adding this feature (which would probably take some time, even if it were to be approved), is there some other way to accomplish the same thing? I think it could be done with dynamic patching, but is there an easier way?

@dfkettle There are several options discussed here: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12744/a-dynamic-receive-hack-a-bug-and-a-workaround

@jameslo Thanks! Your first work-around seems to work fine, after I did a save of the patch.!

[zexy/oreceive] does exactly this, plus it can set order of reception between objects with the same receive name.

another option is [iem_receive] from iemlib.

This feature seems trivial on surface, but it is really not. If implemented naively, it can crash Pd under certain circumstances. For a technical discussion, see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/604. Making it safe would require some changes to Pd internals, see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/849.