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<LI><em>From</em>: Emil Eifrem <<A HREF="mailto:emil#prophecy,lu">emil#prophecy,lu</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:42:04 +0100</LI>
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At 06:13 PM 1/3/99 , Chris Gray wrote:
>[Emil Eifrem:]
> >The most reasonable thing is probably to have some kind of 'default
> >function' (be it via inheritance or some other construction) that handles
> >everything but the 'unusual case,' where the builder overloads this
> >'default function' with his scripting code. This should probably be done
> >regardless of whether you implement all your commands in the scripting
> >language or in your static server.
>
>If your system allows dynamic procs and the controlled calling of them,
>there are further twists that you can do to make things easier and more
>consistent. Have your 'default function' always run, and perform all
>of the checks that need to be done before anything specific to the
>object in question needs to be tested. At that point, check for the
>existence of a special processing function for this verb on that object,
>and call it if found. Otherwise do the normal default processing. In
>either case, you may or may not want to do common 'after-special-case'
>processing, depending on the result of that special case. In fact, all
>the real work may be done there, and 'normal default processing' consists
>of nothing at all.
Yes, I've had thoughts of special always-executed 'pre-' and
'post-handlers.' The advantages are obvious: you have a uniform generic
function that is always called before any actual command processing is
done. The 'prehandler' for example, could perform a lot of sanity checks
and similar stuff which would generally remove a lot of code duplication.
Same goes for the 'posthandler.'
The problem is that I just don't think it would work in practice. I mean,
the preprocessing for 'get' and 'drop' is pretty similar (is the object
there? can it be manipulated by the character?) but what about 'dodge',
'who', 'say' and 'cast'? -shrug-
I know there are people out there who have implemented or are considering
implementing this -- how did you set it up?
-EE [emil#prophecy,lu]
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00022" HREF="msg00022.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Emil Eifrem <a href="mailto:emil#prophecy,lu">emil#prophecy,lu</a>, Sat 02 Jan 1999, 21:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00035" HREF="msg00035.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Mon 04 Jan 1999, 18:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00065" HREF="msg00065.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Wed 06 Jan 1999, 20:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00025" HREF="msg00025.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00029" HREF="msg00029.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Emil Eifrem <a href="mailto:emil#prophecy,lu">emil#prophecy,lu</a>, Mon 04 Jan 1999, 01:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00092" HREF="msg00092.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Fri 08 Jan 1999, 20:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00030" HREF="msg00030.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 04 Jan 1999, 04:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00037" HREF="msg00037.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Mon 04 Jan 1999, 19:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00042" HREF="msg00042.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 05 Jan 1999, 03:15 GMT
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