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<HR><H2>Re: names</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun Apr  3 20:49:36 1994
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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1994 18:47:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: the Lynx &lt;BRANDON@cc.usu.edu&gt;
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
X-Vms-To: COLDSTUFF

Riche:
&lt; Personally, I'd like to see something like:
&lt; dbref: $foo
&lt; dbnum: #1234
&lt; This keeps things pretty unambiguous, and highlights much better the
&lt; relationship and function of the two types of values.

I like this the best (ponders):

object:
  $root,dbref_symbol   'object
  $root.dbref()        =&gt;  "$object"
  $root.dbref_symbol() return dbref_symbol;
  $root.name()         return .dbref()
  $vr.name()           return name;
  $vr,name             ["chair", "blue", 'informal] 
  $physical.name()     All the funky stuff I do with .name right now:
           .name()     =&gt; "the blue chair"
           .name('actual)  =&gt; "chair"
                       etc.

anyhsm, I love it...

_Brandon
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