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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] 'user()' builtin function..</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Apr 26 08:07:36 1996
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 04:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: No one of any consequence &lt;seanl@beef.bovine.com&gt;
To: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;Pine.BSF.3.91.960425225006.10344A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;

I vote for user(), because it's short, and I'm lazy.

-Sean

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

&gt; On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Dancer wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; Okay, I agree with Quinn, 'issuer' sounds more generic, if not, I vote 
&gt; &gt; &gt; for 'controller'.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; If you want generic, try 'initiator()'. Personally, I'd really like
&gt; &gt; something like that. There are quite a lot of times when I'd like to pin
&gt; &gt; down where  .tell() came from (usually from a room announce, from some
&gt; &gt; code on a user, started by...who? Being able to get the dbref of the
&gt; &gt; enactor would be a BIG help).
&gt; 
&gt; Ok, from discussions here and numerous online I'm personally narrowing it 
&gt; down to one of:
&gt; 
&gt;       origin()
&gt;       user()
&gt; 
&gt; Both of which work.  The primary bonus of 'user()' is it is short, and
&gt; should be easy to pickup by most beginning users--but it is not as
&gt; appropriate in more proffesional applications (however, it is also not
&gt; absolutely inappropriate either).  The drawback to 'origin()' is that it
&gt; doesn't imply you can change it (of course, it doesn't imply you can't
&gt; either.. ;) I'm going to be making these changes soon, of these two which
&gt; do people prefer? 
&gt; 
&gt; -Brandon
&gt; 
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