[DGD] Letting the players code stuff

[Noah Gibbs]

  That makes sense.  There's also a DGD-based MOO implementation which does
something similar in order to make MOO code happen.

  In all these cases, it would be very much worth learning to use
parse_string().  It's very powerful, and likely to be the fastest way available
to parse anything at all complicated.

--- Kirk Turner <gameldar at gmail.com> wrote:

> >   So a malevolent player will always be able to create a table containing
> 100
> > tables, each containing 100 tables (and so on) and foil what you're doing. 
> If
> > he only creates, say, 20 thousand table entries on each iteration then he
> won't
> > run out of cycles.  But your MUD will still run out of space very, very
> > quickly.  There are many related little tricks which DGD's LPC simply
> cannot
> > address as-is.  However, by creating an interpreted language *within* DGD
> you
> > can fix this problem because then *you* control how player code allocates
> all
> > memory, not just some of it.
> 
> I've seen this done in Xyllomer (based on about DGD 1.95) and it
> worked effectively - it is a very limited language (basically just a
> series of if and else statements with basic assignments as well) based
> upon latin I think, that allows players to create custom creatures to
> follow their mage around. I browsed through the code, but it was
> written by a wizard who was well known for his unreadable code, but if
> I remember rightly it was essentially a parser that then created lpc
> code for the creature - one of the restrictions that was also employed
> was that the code was restricted to a certain number of lines (1000
> lines).
> 
> This is one of the best features of being mage (but you have to work
> hard to get there).
> 
> Kirk
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