[Coldstuff] To all cold admins out there: bug fixes

[Brandon Gillespie]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:01:48AM +0100, xmath wrote:
> 3. Users can be trapped in a $location with no means of escape, by 
> overriding $location.will_leave to always throw an error. Solution: 
> allow the manager of an object to eject it. On a side note: perhaps 
> eject should allow ejecting objects to their .home() instead. And why 
> not add an argument to .move_to to remove the will-checks (will_move, 
> will_leave, will_arrive) if the sender() is properly authorized. 
> eject can then just check perms and determine the right destination, 
> and call the unchecked version of .move_to. Saves code-duplication.
> An @eject command would be nice too (and @eject! for a rude version, 
> in case the offending place *is* your home)

What situations can you forsee where .will_leave would be throwing an
improper error AND the user wasn't the one who caused the error and
thus couldn't remove or fix .will_leave in their current location...?

It seems more like a workaround for poorly written code; my personal
philosophy is if a programmer gets themselves in a bind, they can work
themselves out of it, rather than building the system to be able to be
nice to them for their oversight :)

-Brandon