[DGD]DGD and Melville

[Nightlith]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Schmidt" <schmidsj at union.edu>
To: <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [DGD]DGD and Melville


> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Nightlith wrote:
> > But if living.c contains all the stat info for
> > players and monsters, how would creation.c access those variables? Do I
> > inherit living.c before creation.c?
>
> I think so, yes. player.c would inherit both living.c and creation.c;
> monsters would only inherit living.c.

Is it possible to have creation.c inherit or include player.c instead? That
way, it has access to all the variables required to set up the new player,
and won't be included in areas it's not required.

> There is an alternative, which is to have a daemon object which
> would handle incoming connections, create a player body, set
> the relevant data, then force the body to save itself. TMI-2
> mudlib does it that way, for instance, and it's basically what
> Chris Kaczor just suggested. The advantage of this method
> is that you don't have to inherit the creation code (which
> is very slightly wasteful) in the player body. The drawback
> is that it is more complicated, harder for a new mudlib hacker
> to read and understand, and raises some potential security
> problems. I think the simplicity is worth the waste, but
> the reverse view is certainly reasonable.

I wouldn't know where to begin to do something like that. This alone is
complicated enough.

Dereck.



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