[DGD] Zero compatibility

[Kevin Carpenter]

Felix A. Croes write:
> A change I would prefer (which would make the server incompatible with
> LPmud 2.4.5, and thus was abandoned with regret) would be to initialize
> variables to `null' rather than integer 0, `null' being a special value
> that is equal to nothing but itself, and has typeof(null) == T_NONE.
> Null can then be a safe neutral element for addition.
>

Felix -

Is this decission cast in stone?  I'd much rather have the ability to
store 0 as a mapping value than to have LPmud 2.4.5 capability.  It
would clean up code, allowing the removal of some hacks.
-- 
Kevin Carpenter
(Expressing his comments from home in St. Louis, where this message originated)



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