# Suggestion, re: Minimal.db

Richard Godard (rgodard@divsun.unige.ch)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 03:32:57 PST

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    At 4:02 12/1/95, Bill Garrett wrote:
    >> >        This may necessitate a standard for Moos - like #0, some
    >> > place where autoport can find pointers to 'known' objects -
    >> >perhaps Everyman has changed, or something like that.  That way
    >> >Autoport can correct code that is made Autoportable via keywords
    >>
    >> Ever heard about $sysobj and $no_one? no? maybe you should not port stuff...
    >
    >You missed the point -- some objects, like Quinn's utilities from Lambda,
    >are considered `essential', as are many room generics, player classes
    >(read: Frand's), etc.  Not every important generic is corified.

    Perhaps I missed the point, but as far as I know Everyman is $no_one.

    I agree that there is a problem with object that are not corrified but that
    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.
    All of this can be done in db, I guess.

    Any regexp wiz interested?

    >You're obliged to port as a wizard, unless someone's violated my
    >copyright and given Autoport to non-wizards.

    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
    ?

    Janus