Re: Another verb move for the 25Dec95 core

• Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 03:17:31 PST
• From:
  Stephen Sayer <ssayer@hijinx.com>
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  Stephen Sayer <ssayer@hijinx.com>
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> Stacey Greenstein suggests @copy-move #6:confunc to #91:confunc
> 
> A better solution is to split off the functionality that is only mail
> related, thusly:
> 
> @program $player:confunc
> if (valid(cp = caller_perms()) && caller != this &&
> !$perm_utils:controls(cp, this) && caller != #0)   return E_PERM;
> endif
> this:("@last-connection")();
> $news:check();
> .
> 
> @program $mail_recipient_class:confunc
> if (valid(cp = caller_perms()) && caller != this &&
> !$perm_utils:controls(cp, this) && caller != #0)   return E_PERM;
> endif
> nm = this:length_all_msgs() -
> this:length_date_le(this:get_current_message()[2]); if (nm)
>   this:notify(tostr("You have new mail (", nm, " message", nm == 1 ? "" |
>   "s", ").", this:mail_option("expert") ? "" | "  Type 'help mail' for info
on reading it.")); 
> endif
> this:mail_catch_up();
> this:check_mail_lists();
> pass(@args);
> .
> 
> 
> This change has been made on LambdaMOO.
> 

Judy et al.,

Based on the existing character hierarchies I decided that I should @set
$player_class to #90 (Frand's Player Class) instead of #6 to fix the $login
problem.

Generic Guest, builder, programmer and wizard are all descendents of that class
so I resolved that regular players should be too. There are quite a few verbs
and properties defined on the intermediate Generic Mail Recieving Player and
Frand's Player Class that I found to be compelling reasons for the action I
took.

Is there some reason why my approach isn't a more appropriate change to make?
I'm still wondering what if any side effect might result from my change and how
the fact that I've left $player set to #6 will affect things too. Especially
since the line from the wizard verb...
#56:make-core-database [Wizard (#2)]:  $player_class = $player;
...equates these two when a core is generated. But perhaps I'm only looking at
the source of the problem. I've been running a JHCore until I grabbed the new
LambdaCore so I'm still feeling my way around it a bit. If my approach is valid
should I also change $player similarly?

Later,

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• Another verb move for the 25Dec95 core
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