[DGD] Re: Persistance

[Robert Forshaw]

>From: Stephen Schmidt <schmidsj at union.edu>
> > > When you eventually do reboot, how will it reconnect the rooms? Doing 
>it by
> > > file name makes this easy, but by object reference, well, for a start 
>every
> > > room object will have to be loaded, and then how is it going to figure 
>out
> > > what rooms connect to where, if not by file name?
> >
> > All rooms will still have the same 'state' that they had when the
> > statedump was made.  Exits still lead in the same directions,
> > descriptions still are what they were, etc.
>
>I don't think that was the question - or if it was, then I have
>a related question :)  How do you initialize the system to begin
>with? At some point you have to load the room into memory for
>the first time.

He did answer the question. I'm thinking what you'd do is load the room 
object, then send a command to it to link it to another room object.

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