Re: Wierd Verb Stuff - Need Help!

• Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:05:42 PST
• From:
  Richard Connamacher <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu>
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Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>         Hi, everyone.  I'm trying to setup a verb on an object which
> works like this:
> [Verb code may not work; making this off the top of my head]
> cmd = "foo";
> player:cmd();
> [Could this be setup so that the second line will execute player:foo(),
> and then if cmd is changed (say to "bar"), that it would execute
> player:bar()?]

The form for any verb call is <object>:(<string>)(<arglist>)
The <object>:verb() form is actually just a shorthand way of saying 
<object>:("verb")().

cmd = "foo";
player:(cmd)();

would call player:foo().

That's why, in order to call a verb whose name includes a MOO-code keyword, like 
@join, you have to write player:("@join")().

Phantom

• Wierd Verb Stuff - Need Help!
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