[SUG] Two changes to the server
Jefferson M. Dubrule (igor@linguist.dartmouth.edu)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:00:27 -0400 (EDT)
Roger Crew mumbled:
>
> except that I figure if one is going to go to this trouble, one may as
> well instead do the substitutions
>
> player current_connection()
> player = X set_current_connection(X)
>
> thus removing the current bogosity in which "player" is this weird-ass
> variable that receives special treatment accorded no other variable
> (w.r.t. when one is actually allowed to change it and how this affects
> nested calls).
Second this! I was writing a prioritising task scheduler thingy a while
back, and wanted to get the tracebacks going to the right person, so I
ended up having to do this bit of bogosity:
#4712:do_verb_call()
player = args[5];
#4712:really_do_verb_call(@args);
-manta
(Wiz, SchoolNet MOO)