Minimal.db

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:16:02 PST


slayer@kaiwan.com writes:
> This probably has nothing to do with the way the server works or anything,
> but a good starting verb for eval would be
> notify(player,toliteral(eval(argstr+";"))); . maybe it can go in the readme
> or something.

I've updated README.Minimal to use toliteral() where appropriate.

Jefferson M. Dubrule writes:
> I can see no advantage that tostr() has over toliteral(), so is this now
> in the server purely for reasons of backwards-compatibility?

The tostr() function does very different things from toliteral() for strings
and lists, and it handles concatenation, which doesn't make any sense for
toliteral().

	Pavel