[DGD] Delay statements in scripting

[Par Winzell]

> This is precisely what Merry does.

*blush*

Merry is Skotos' LPC-based scripting system. It's pretty much straight 
LPC with 'additions' -- e.g. delays, which are implemented with the 
switch solution given by Dworkin above.

Merry is parsed using parse_string() and a rathed mutated version of 
Felix's old LPC-grammar-for-parse_string() grammar. It's broken down 
into a binary format and stored in LWO's. The LWO can reconstruct the 
Merry source or underlying LPC source on demand (the former for editing 
the script, the latter for compiling it to a real LPC object).

The systems keeps a cache of a few hundred compiled Merry scripts 
around, but they can be destructed and recompiled on demand.

One tip for anybody implementing this: remember that the compiled 
objects can't keep any real state. For delays, for example, the callouts 
themselves can't be kept in the generated object. You -must- be able to 
destruct such objects at will.

If I execute an action that requires a delay, it's my body that should 
keep the callout, and then relayeto the appropriate script handler when 
the callout expires.

Zell

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