[MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 06 May 1999 20:42:39 +0200 
Emil Eifrem <emil at prophecy.lu> wrote:

> Lately I've beginning to doubt this modular approach. It sounds
> very good in concept and on an abstract level, but when you get
> down to some real code it's partly really messy and
> troublesome. 

This is of course why you need to throw your first attempt away --
you learn all the painful lessons so you can do it right the next
time.

> That's probably a result of flawed design decisions on my end,
> though, it's the first time I build a system of this
> magnitude. 

Modular systems are typically easy to implement as long as the
divisions between modules are clean and functionally useful.  If
they're not you're in for a nightmare attempting to wedge a design
onto a solution it doesn't really fit.

Now you see why I've thrown out and started again from scratch so
many times, and am about to again.  Learning curves.

> I've been toying with the idea of writing down my overall design
> decisions and post it to the list for comments but never gotten
> around to it.

Go on, be a devil.

> You'd all probably laugh anyway. ;)

Well, of course, but we'll also explain the joke.

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