[375] in Coldmud discussion meeting
objname vs dbref
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Jul 11 03:50:49 1994
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From: deforest@netcom.com (Robert de Forest)
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 00:46:53 -0700 (PDT)
I did in fact request that the routines which manipulate the object lookup
table refer to the lookup keys as names. That is, I prefer add_objname to
set_name. In the current docs, $foo is a name expression which evaluates
identically to get_name('foo). $foo therefore, is not really a dbref, since
it has the name layer between 'foo and the actual number of the object.
I think it's less confusing to call "$root" a name and "#1" a number. Hence
Brandon's suggestions as orriginally mailed.
Naturally, the change from set_name() to add_objname() is to account for the
fact that objects are allowed to have multiple names.
My thanks to Greg for the name/num setup. It makes swapping objects out for
debug purposes and such easy and just plain makes sense.
Crag,
waffler
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