Hi Sandi, Palrich, et al. A couple of years ago, in my ambition to help the ROM community, I came up with the idea of "programmable strings". The concept was to have strings that could be programmed.
That is something like ... sometimes the string would say... "Its a beautiful day outside" or "Its very dark because a storm is brewing overhead"... I know how to do this. I can say this with some finality now. In fact, I'm reasonably positive that I could complete it in some short time. But I'm not interested. At first, I worked on that project very diligently for a couple of months, but Yahoo! discontinued free POP access... and therefore I lost my connection to the rom list. (Believe me, I'm not about to check 200+ emails a day on a web based system!) So my interest wanned. Indeed, it hasn't been revived. I will be implementing something like it in my mud... but I wouldn't do it in ROM. Not that Rom's a bad code base at all! (Since I am writing my own.) I've grown alot as a programmer since that time. And, hopefully, as a person as well. :-) So this is my offer: If someone is interested in how to add programmable strings to their mud, drop me a line. I do know how, and I assure you, it wouldn't be as hard as people imagine. ;-) (Indeed, after building a full fledged compiler for my compiler class... building a pidly programmable script string is pathetic. ;-)) I just have one question. In places, I have looked up how to do various things in various code bases... and in fact, I have rewritten entire functions in ROM. (Specifically, write_to_descriptor). My question is... am I bound by the ROM license if I include the functions that I rewrote for ROM in my mud? (Even though I completely rewrote them, they still contain basic logic, and in some cases, variable names.) But I mean please... there's only so many ways to transmit data to someone.. (for instance!) Mark Roberts Esheliam -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d s: a-- C++>$ UL+ P+ L++ !E(---) W- N o? K? w O- M-- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ !PGP !tv t+ 5? X? R* b+++ DI+ D- G++ e++> h---- r+++ y-- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
