Re: ADV-PROG Re: Defining New Error Codes? [SERVER]

• Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:37:00 PDT
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  abakun@rci.ripco.com (ThwartedEfforts)
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Jay Carlson, who never wants flat text, wrote:

>>   (#-1, #-2, #-3 are already taken, and on E_MOO, I already have #-4
>>     defined as $this for the parser.  You mainly just want to use a
>>     negative object number here that is less than #-3 and not used by
>>     anything else (nothing in a standard lambdacore uses anything less
>>     than #-3))
>
>Except for connections not yet connected to a player object---the ones
>that #0:do_login_command deals with.  They start at, I think #-5 and
>proceed down to negative infinity as new connections come in.

Using Minimal.db, I tested this and found that the inital connection comes
 in as #-2.  I suspect that at -(2^31), they wrap around to +(2^31).
Anyway, my point was that there isn't anything in lambdacore that has hard
 coded refs to negative object numbers less than #-3, in fact, any code that
 _is_ using hard coded refs to negative object numbers should be using
 $failed_match, $ambigious_match, and $nothing anyway, so you should be okay
 to define, as core refs, anything you want and not get any conflicts.
$sys:do_login_command and the entire login stack only use the player object 
 before login in notify()s, so no conflicts there. mmh...

>> Anyone for frobs? (thereby allowing you to overload typeof() and account for
>>  this) :) :) :)  But let's not get into that.  (Check the archives).
>
>...my feelings on this are in the archive...

I, for one, know. :)
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