Subject: Re: Another built-in idea

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 10:02:00 -0800

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

Pavel says:

> 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.

Note that with the impending corification (in LambdaMOO) of the 
:contents() verb, if the server stopped doing the matching and left
it all to in-db matching, we'd be able to make metarooms (and other
pseudo-places) correctly.

For more information on this :contents() rambling (my latest Holy 
Crusade), bug me on LambdaMOO sometime or check out my long-winded
posts on *Core-DB-Issues.

Seth / Blackbriar