Re: Minimal.db

• Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:16:02 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• Cc: slayer@kaiwan.com, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: Jefferson M. Dubrule's message of "Sat, 09 Mar 1996 21:41:59 PST" <11814130@prancer.Dartmouth.EDU>

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

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