# [SUG] Two changes to the server

Jefferson M. Dubrule (igor@linguist.dartmouth.edu)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:00:27 -0400 (EDT)

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    Roger Crew mumbled:
    >
    > except that I figure if one is going to go to this trouble, one may as
    > well instead do the substitutions
    >
    >   player                   current_connection()
    >   player = X               set_current_connection(X)
    >
    > thus removing the current bogosity in which "player" is this weird-ass
    > variable that receives special treatment accorded no other variable
    > (w.r.t. when one is actually allowed to change it and how this affects
    > nested calls).

    Second this!  I was writing a prioritising task scheduler thingy a while
    back, and wanted to get the tracebacks going to the right person, so I
    ended up having to do this bit of bogosity:

    #4712:do_verb_call()
      player = args[5];
      #4712:really_do_verb_call(@args);

    -manta
    (Wiz, SchoolNet MOO)