[DGD] call_other() and static functions

[Noah Gibbs]

  This stuff's in old (archived) mailing list posts, I know that.  I don't
really have a good overview of the topic on my site since I need to dig through
those old posts at some point and figure out a good, comprehensive way to
explain it all, and I never got around to it.

  As in so many cases where I'm not the best source of info, the archived
mailing list is.  I've read through it several times, and that's where you're
going to get all the very best info...  It's just not very organized.

  There are also old posts of that kind archived and un-collected on my site,
in places like
"http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/DGD/Programming/Calling_Conventions.html". 
No guarantees that I got all the important ones, though.

--- Petter Nyström <md1pette at mdstud.chalmers.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Noah Gibbs wrote:
> 
> >  There's also one additional factor you're not taking into account.  Static
> > functions of the auto object are treated as efuns, and have slightly
> different
> > behavior than static functions for any other parent object.
> 
> That is interesting... I didn't know that. It sounds likely to be the 
> stone I've dug into here. Is there documented somewhere what it means for 
> a function to be treated as an efun? (Damn, I thought efun was an LPMUD 
> term and not something I'd run across in DGD.)
> 
> > Just in case you thought you nearly had it figured out :-)
> 
> Well... Ever so slowly you know! Thanks for helping me along. =)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jimorie
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