Subject: Another built-in idea

From: [email-masked] (Edwanji Lemorian)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:13:45 -0800

While we're talking about new built-ins, how about one that does
matching from a string to an object number. i.e. match_object("water",
player) returns the object number of whatever is aliased as "water" at
the location of player. The server already performs this task all the
time, so why not a command to do it? 
$whatever_utils:match() has always seemed a little over-blown for
something the server should be able to do more quickly from a builtin.
Just my thoughts.

--Eddie

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:47:26 -0800

> Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:13:45 -0800
> From:	[email-masked] (Edwanji Lemorian)
> 

Actually, this is something I've been interested in removing from the server
for a long time.  I'd like to see all command-parsing done by the code in the
DB, instead, including the translation of names into objects.  The reason is
that in-DB code can do a much better job of context-dependent parsing.

	Pavel