[972] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: [COLD] 'user()' builtin function..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue Apr 23 11:00:57 1996
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:38:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Stephen Smoogen <smooge@duracef.shout.net>
To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960422125842.3006A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>
On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> Ok, I'm breaking down here. Should we add a 'user()' builtin? This
> function would go alongside 'sender()' and 'caller()', it would be more
> appropriately called 'controller()'. Since ColdC is developed for a
> multi-connection server environment it only makes sense that there would
> be a central object to control a single 'connection'. How this builtin
> would work is there would be a controller variable which defaults to the
> connection starting the task, but allow the task to set a different
> controller as things go..
>
> -Brandon Gillespie-
>
> Do you prefer 'user()' or 'controller()'?
I would go with either controller() or requestor()... but prefer
controller(). The reason being is that I could have an AINPC running
around in the enviroment or some other item. It would not be a user
though... (just semantics).
Stephen
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