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<H1>LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual</H1>
<H2>For LambdaMOO Version 1.8.0p6</H2>
<H2>March 1997</H2>
<ADDRESS>by Pavel Curtis</ADDRESS>
<ADDRESS>aka Haakon</ADDRESS>
<ADDRESS>aka Lambda</ADDRESS>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC1" HREF="ProgrammersManual_1.html#SEC1">Introduction</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC2" HREF="ProgrammersManual_2.html#SEC2">The LambdaMOO Database</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC3" HREF="ProgrammersManual_3.html#SEC3">MOO Value Types</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC4" HREF="ProgrammersManual_4.html#SEC4">Objects in the MOO Database</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC5" HREF="ProgrammersManual_5.html#SEC5">Fundamental Object Attributes</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC6" HREF="ProgrammersManual_6.html#SEC6">Properties on Objects</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="ProgrammersManual_7.html#SEC7">Verbs on Objects</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="ProgrammersManual_8.html#SEC8">The Built-in Command Parser</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="ProgrammersManual_9.html#SEC9">The MOO Programming Language</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="ProgrammersManual_10.html#SEC10">MOO Language Expressions</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC11" HREF="ProgrammersManual_11.html#SEC11">Errors While Evaluating Expressions</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC12" HREF="ProgrammersManual_12.html#SEC12">Writing Values Directly in Verbs</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC13" HREF="ProgrammersManual_13.html#SEC13">Naming Values Within a Verb</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC14" HREF="ProgrammersManual_14.html#SEC14">Arithmetic Operators</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC15" HREF="ProgrammersManual_15.html#SEC15">Comparing Values</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC16" HREF="ProgrammersManual_16.html#SEC16">Values as True and False</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="ProgrammersManual_17.html#SEC17">Indexing into Lists and Strings</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="ProgrammersManual_18.html#SEC18">Extracting an Element from a List or String</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="ProgrammersManual_19.html#SEC19">Replacing an Element of a List or String</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="ProgrammersManual_20.html#SEC20">Extracting a Subsequence of a List or String</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="ProgrammersManual_21.html#SEC21">Replacing a Subsequence of a List or String</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="ProgrammersManual_22.html#SEC22">Other Operations on Lists</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC23" HREF="ProgrammersManual_23.html#SEC23">Spreading List Elements Among Variables</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC24" HREF="ProgrammersManual_24.html#SEC24">Getting and Setting the Values of Properties</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC25" HREF="ProgrammersManual_25.html#SEC25">Calling Built-in Functions and Other Verbs</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC26" HREF="ProgrammersManual_26.html#SEC26">Catching Errors in Expressions</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC27" HREF="ProgrammersManual_27.html#SEC27">Parentheses and Operator Precedence</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC28" HREF="ProgrammersManual_28.html#SEC28">MOO Language Statements</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC29" HREF="ProgrammersManual_29.html#SEC29">Errors While Executing Statements</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC30" HREF="ProgrammersManual_30.html#SEC30">Simple Statements</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC31" HREF="ProgrammersManual_31.html#SEC31">Statements for Testing Conditions</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC32" HREF="ProgrammersManual_32.html#SEC32">Statements for Looping</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC33" HREF="ProgrammersManual_33.html#SEC33">Terminating One or All Iterations of a Loop</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC34" HREF="ProgrammersManual_34.html#SEC34">Returning a Value from a Verb</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC35" HREF="ProgrammersManual_35.html#SEC35">Handling Errors in Statements</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC36" HREF="ProgrammersManual_36.html#SEC36">Cleaning Up After Errors</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC37" HREF="ProgrammersManual_37.html#SEC37">Executing Statements at a Later Time</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC38" HREF="ProgrammersManual_38.html#SEC38">MOO Tasks</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC39" HREF="ProgrammersManual_39.html#SEC39">Built-in Functions</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC40" HREF="ProgrammersManual_40.html#SEC40">Object-Oriented Programming</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC41" HREF="ProgrammersManual_41.html#SEC41">Manipulating MOO Values</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC42" HREF="ProgrammersManual_42.html#SEC42">General Operations Applicable to all Values</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC43" HREF="ProgrammersManual_43.html#SEC43">Operations on Numbers</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC44" HREF="ProgrammersManual_44.html#SEC44">Operations on Strings</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC45" HREF="ProgrammersManual_45.html#SEC45">Operations on Lists</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC46" HREF="ProgrammersManual_46.html#SEC46">Manipulating Objects</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC47" HREF="ProgrammersManual_47.html#SEC47">Fundamental Operations on Objects</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC48" HREF="ProgrammersManual_48.html#SEC48">Object Movement</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC49" HREF="ProgrammersManual_49.html#SEC49">Operations on Properties</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC50" HREF="ProgrammersManual_50.html#SEC50">Operations on Verbs</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC51" HREF="ProgrammersManual_51.html#SEC51">Operations on Player Objects</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC52" HREF="ProgrammersManual_52.html#SEC52">Operations on Network Connections</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC53" HREF="ProgrammersManual_53.html#SEC53">Operations Involving Times and Dates</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC54" HREF="ProgrammersManual_54.html#SEC54">MOO-Code Evaluation and Task Manipulation</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC55" HREF="ProgrammersManual_55.html#SEC55">Administrative Operations</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC56" HREF="ProgrammersManual_56.html#SEC56">Server Commands and Database Assumptions</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC57" HREF="ProgrammersManual_57.html#SEC57">Built-in Commands</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC58" HREF="ProgrammersManual_58.html#SEC58">Command-Output Delimiters</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC59" HREF="ProgrammersManual_59.html#SEC59">Programming</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC60" HREF="ProgrammersManual_60.html#SEC60">Flushing Unprocessed Input</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC61" HREF="ProgrammersManual_61.html#SEC61">Initial Punctuation in Commands</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC62" HREF="ProgrammersManual_62.html#SEC62">Server Assumptions About the Database</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC63" HREF="ProgrammersManual_63.html#SEC63">Server Options Set in the Database</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC64" HREF="ProgrammersManual_64.html#SEC64">Server Messages Set in the Database</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC65" HREF="ProgrammersManual_65.html#SEC65">Checkpointing the Database</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC66" HREF="ProgrammersManual_66.html#SEC66">Accepting and Initiating Network Connections</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC67" HREF="ProgrammersManual_67.html#SEC67">Associating Network Connections with Players</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC68" HREF="ProgrammersManual_68.html#SEC68">Out-of-Band Commands</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC69" HREF="ProgrammersManual_69.html#SEC69">The First Tasks Run By the Server</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC70" HREF="ProgrammersManual_70.html#SEC70">Controlling the Execution of Tasks</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC71" HREF="ProgrammersManual_71.html#SEC71">Controlling the Handling of Aborted Tasks</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC72" HREF="ProgrammersManual_72.html#SEC72">Matching in Command Parsing</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC73" HREF="ProgrammersManual_73.html#SEC73">Restricting Access to Built-in Properties and Functions</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC74" HREF="ProgrammersManual_74.html#SEC74">Creating and Recycling Objects</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC75" HREF="ProgrammersManual_75.html#SEC75">Object Movement</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC76" HREF="ProgrammersManual_76.html#SEC76">Temporarily Enabling Obsolete Server Features</A>
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<LI><A NAME="TOC77" HREF="ProgrammersManual_77.html#SEC77">Function Index</A>
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