Request for LambdaMOO 1.8.0

Don Schwarz (don@darkowl.pr.mcs.net)
Wed, 13 Dec 1995 14:32:38 PST


On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Rich Connamacher wrote:

> I have a request for something to be put into the final release of 
> LambdaMOO 1.8.0: allow verb names in builtin functions to be numbers, 
> rather than strings.  If they're numbers, then they'll ALWAYS be 
> interpreted as the verb's number, rather than the verb's name.
>

I thought the idea was not to name verbs as numbers.  I don't see any
reason that you'd have to name a verb as a number without being able to
put a _ or something in front of it.  Maybe we should just make it so
verbs can never be named after numbers.  The only place in the LambdaCore
that I can think of, off hand, where there is a verb named as a number is
$code_utils:1 which is used by $code_utils:eval_d but I don't see any
problem with renaming this verb.

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