[DGD] Annoying n00b questions

[Kurt Nordstrom]

Hello everybody.  Recently I started dabbling in DGD again after some 
time spent messing with MUSH/MUX and MOO.  LPC is like returning to an 
old friend with whom I had some occasional squabbles. ;)

I do have some questions that perhaps somebody might have some insight 
into.  So, here goes...

1) I want ANSI.  My understanding is that the vanilla driver filters 
this out.  I see an ANSI patch for 1.1, but I'm running 12.x.  Does 
anybody know if it works on the latest source tree?  The same goes for 
the regular expression patches that I see.  I know that you can use 
parse_string for regexp matching, but I'm really not ready to learn that 
much right now. ;)

2) MOO and MUSH have spoiled me in that it's pretty simple to evaluate a 
statement of code on the fly to see what will happen.  Is there any way 
to do this in DGD?  Has somebody come up with a clever wiztoy to allow 
for that sort of thing?  If such a thing violates DGD's philosophy, 
please educate me. :)

3) I'm using the Melville lib as my base.  I'm thinking that I might 
want to implement a public interface on the player object for storing 
and retrieving generic properties. (e.g. set_property(string name, mixed 
value), get_property(string name) ) For example, if I had a "tell" 
command, it might want to store a "sender" property in the recipient so 
that this property could be checked for by a subsequent "reply" 
command.  Stuff like that.  Is there any reason that this might be a bad 
idea?

Thanks for your thoughts.  I do appreciate 'em.

-Kurt