Re: Wish list

• Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:28:51 PDT
• From:
  Coolin MacKaarmick <colin@tripod.tripod.com>
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• In-Reply-To: <199508282144.WAA00899@hinge.mistral.co.uk>

Responding to two people here, sorry for any confusion ...

On Mon, 28 Aug 1995 bartmoss@mistral.co.uk wrote:

[snip]

> >> @prop #100.newprop #99.oldprop
> >> throw ball at #100.someprop
> >> etc.
> >> 
> >> ... i.e. some more subtle interpretation by parser.
> >> 
> >This could probably be done in-DB fairly easily, by hacking 
> >$string_utils:match_object or something similar.  I do think that we need 

I'm not sure that would work: the server parser, only calls :huh*() verbs
to try to figure things out, not $string_utils:match_object(). 

> >to give the server more support for in-DB matching though.  Maybe let it 
> >call #0:do_match instead of the normal server matching if it exists.  

Nice idea; perhaps hack $command_utils:do_huh() to call :do_match() that
would parse things like "#100.someprop" and pull an objnum out of that. 

[snip]

> It is an easy hack, I added ordinal/possessional parsing to a MOO I helping
> out on. What I did was add a new  :huh verb, lik slotting in a new chip board ;)
> Some would go with this, infact a few lines of code should do it.

Okay, looks like Chris already thought of this.

> -Chris.

Still, I might like to do something like 

	@prop me.office $office

which returns

	Syntax error in initial value:  `$' unexpected

This is a product of @prop, and I could hack that but I don't want to 
have to hack every @-verb that I might want to give an expression 
argument to.  I'm not sure if a server mod is the optimal solution, but 
hacking oodles of core programmer verbs doesn't strike me as optimal either.

I guess it's a #0:do_match() and a call to that from $c_u:do_huh(), for now 
at least.

Colin

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