Man With Feathers

I know this has been covered a lot on the forum, but wanted to see if I'd missed anything.

Is there a way to make send / receives local in a "top level" patch?

I know that there is #0 etc for abstractions but that's not possible. I've also heard about --- but this is m4l. pvar seems limited to named objects. I suspect the answer is "use patch cords you lazy fool", but wondered if I was overlooking something slick :)

I know this has been covered a lot on the forum, but wanted to see if I'd missed anything. 

Is there a way to make send / receives local in a "top level" patch? 

Hello all,
I know this has been covered a lot on the forum, but wanted to see if I'd missed anything. 
Is there a way to make send / receive

local-sends-and-receives-«again»

Nope, you're not missing anything. As my personal convention to prevent undesired interactions I use a project specific prefix for all global names ex [s yx.masterGain]

when you use s/r within the same patcher level you are creating 2 connections instead of 1.

when you use s/r within the  same patcher level you are creating 2 connections instead of 1.

Local Sends and Receives (again)