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<LI><em>From</em>: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <<A HREF="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 06:41:26 +0200</LI>
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Chris Gray wrote:
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> [Jeroen Ruigrok:]
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> >Yeah, that's exactly what I meant... I just wonder if we would be good for OS
> >programming too then? =)
> >What do you (as the MUD-Dev list) commonly use for status control? Flags, chars,
> >bitmasks or other genious inventions?
>
> Sure, I've done OS programming, too. Oh, that's not what you meant? :-)
Ehm, not exactly, but close =)
> I tend to use boolean values in server code. Occasionally I'll use bitmaps
> for some flagsets, but I find it prettier not to, and for most things, the
> space doesn't matter. I don't have many flag values in the most common
> data structures used by the server.
But wouldn't the booleans together make up a bitmask/bitmap?
> Layers, yes, but also lots of fairly independent modules. E.g. in my
> server, the database code is separate, the lexer for the programming
> language is separate, the parser is separate, the interpreter is
> separate, the socket stuff is most separate, etc. etc. I tend to think
> in boxes rather than in layers, although the stuff written in the MUD
> 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?
> There have been a number of suggestions in the last couple of months - you
> should read back in the archives a bit. About the only new books I've
> 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.
> --
> Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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> --
> MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future.
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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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<LI><strong><A NAME="00343" HREF="msg00343.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00096" HREF="msg00096.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00100" HREF="msg00100.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00105" HREF="msg00105.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>,
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