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<LI><em>From</em>: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai &lt;<A HREF="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</A>&gt;</LI>
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Chris Gray wrote:
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&gt; [Jeroen Ruigrok:]
&gt; 
&gt;  &gt;Yeah, that's exactly what I meant... I just wonder if we would be good for OS
&gt;  &gt;programming too then?  =)
&gt;  &gt;What do you (as the MUD-Dev list) commonly use for status control? Flags, chars,
&gt;  &gt;bitmasks or other genious inventions?
&gt; 
&gt; Sure, I've done OS programming, too. Oh, that's not what you meant? :-)

Ehm, not exactly, but close =)

&gt; I tend to use boolean values in server code. Occasionally I'll use bitmaps
&gt; for some flagsets, but I find it prettier not to, and for most things, the
&gt; space doesn't matter. I don't have many flag values in the most common
&gt; data structures used by the server.

But wouldn't the booleans together make up a bitmask/bitmap? 
 
&gt; Layers, yes, but also lots of fairly independent modules. E.g. in my
&gt; server, the database code is separate, the lexer for the programming
&gt; language is separate, the parser is separate, the interpreter is
&gt; separate, the socket stuff is most separate, etc. etc. I tend to think
&gt; in boxes rather than in layers, although the stuff written in the MUD
&gt; programming language is definitely layered on top of the server itself.

Do you find your codebase faster than most stock code? Or easier to code upon?

&gt; There have been a number of suggestions in the last couple of months - you
&gt; should read back in the archives a bit. About the only new books I've
&gt; bought in a while have been Java ones, and NT (argh!!) ones.

Better start with the latest archives then instead of at the beginning =) Ah
well NT is not that bad, if it were just faster and less rebooting-like.

&gt; --
&gt; Chris Gray     cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
&gt; 
&gt; --
&gt; MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai &lt;asmodai(at)wxs.nl&gt;
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist

From the Tides of Hell, I sprang forth...
Heaven can wait 'till another day...


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00337" HREF="msg00337.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, 
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 21:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00339" HREF="msg00339.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, 
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Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 01:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00100" HREF="msg00100.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, 
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <a href="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 04:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00105" HREF="msg00105.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, 
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