[MUD-Dev] string parsing

[Nathan Yospe]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Felix A. Croes wrote:

:Nathan Yospe <yospe at hawaii.edu> wrote:

:> I've written quite a bit on this topic in the past. While my current 
:> parsers are in Java, and the rules of the lexical system are a little
:> different, there are similarities... I have finally implemented sentance
:> completion. As soon as there is a possible completion, the completed
:> sentance is printed in gray text ghosted off of the typed text. Hitting 
:> tab completes a current gray segment, hitting enter submits black only.

:If there is an archive of previous postings on the subject, I would
:be very interested.

:Your parsers are in Java...  does that mean that it is the client which
:does the parsing?

:Felix Croes

Yup. The client does the parsing of both input (as here) and output (meaning
what you see when you look around, what you smell, etc, etc, etc), and the
host runs everything in a raw 3D event/object/time prediction field. I don't
know how else to describe it. The host implements the physics, and negotiates
transfer of the only form of text it sends and recieves - communication. The
rest of the text (or potentially graphics, or whatever else) is actually
retrieved from, and submitted to, a seperate port, which I am still working
on security for. You can see why I'm developing this completely offline... In
any case, there is no way I'd be able to handle a seperate copy of this sort
of thing for every user on the _server_...
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