Subject: several things

From: Quinn Avery <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 01:14:53 -0800

I'd like to be able to set the 'player' variable to an object I own, such
 as a puppet.  Similiarly, set_task_perms(something-I-own) would be useful.

Without being a wizard, of course.

Would there be problems with adding these mods in the next release?

Also, will there be any new error handling in upcoming releases?  I'd
 really like the ability to `!d' an entire task with something like
 the `** <expression> **' syntax that was floating around a while ago,
 or coldmud's `(| <expression> |)'.

-quinn

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 13:34:55 -0800

> Date:	Mon, 1 Nov 1993 01:14:53 -0800
> From:	Quinn Avery <[email-masked]>
> 

:hmms.  I will look into adding these in 1.8.0, assuming nobody comes up in the
meantime with any nasty security holes that such changes would open.

>  or coldmud's `(| <expression> |)'.

The syntax in 1.8.0 is
	
	expr ::=  `  expr  '

for expressions as well as the following new statements:

	stmt ::=  TRY stmts EXCEPT id stmts ENDTRY
	     |	  TRY stmts FINALLY stmts ENDTRY
	     |	  RAISE expr ;