# Suggestion, re: Minimal.db

Bill Garrett (bill@yeehaw.com)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:29:00 PST

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    > are still essential. I was thinking of generalizing the use of $local and a
    > & prefix. The idea would be that every programmer could @local-corify
    > mygeneric as myfoobar. You would then have   &myfoobar == $local.myfoobar
    > == mygeneric. The trick is to change set_verb_code so and eval so that they
    > do the &myfoobar -> $local.myfoobar conversion and to have verb_code do the
    > $local.myfoobar -> &myfoobar conversion.
    > Any regexp wiz interested?

    $local is very often the dumping ground for such objects; there's just no
    commonly-accepted standard for this practice, though.  Short of telling
    everyone to port from one single MOO, it will come down to object numbers
    in the end I think.  Yr right, it is a standards problem.

    > You port as wiz, ok, but does all the code you port with @autoport is
    > wizzed-on-arrival? or only the wizzed if it was wiz owned at the from_site

    Autoport includes an option called `owner'.  For example:
      @autoport Lambda.xerox.com 8888 Janus fat-chance #1234 owner=$hacker

    By default, anything you port is owned by you.  The owner option lets you
    set the owner of what you're porting to something else.