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Linear Quadtrees Carter T Shock
- Linear Quadtrees gzhang1234@yahoo.com
q-tree stuff Chris Gray
- q-tree stuff Carter T Shock
- - q-tree stuff coder@ibm.net
Issues from the digests and Wout's list Alex Oren
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list coder@ibm.net
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list coder@ibm.net
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list coder@ibm.net
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
  - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
    - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list coder@ibm.net
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Miroslav Silovic
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Miroslav Silovic
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Miroslav Silovic
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list coder@ibm.net
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Miroslav Silovic
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jon A. Lambert
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Ling
    - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
- - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
  - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
    - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Ling
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jon A. Lambert
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Travis Casey
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jon A. Lambert
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Ling
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
    - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Orion Henry
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
  - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Ling
  - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Shawn Halpenny
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Nathan Yospe
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
    - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
    - - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jon A. Lambert
      - Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jon A. Lambert
        
        > From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        > at 11:03 PM, "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com> said:
        >
        > >While I love the use of regular expressions in COLD, the enhancements
        > >they have made to context are decidedly irritating. One's order of
        > >verb processing can easily change by moving about the world and
        > >picking up and dropping items. I prefer a consistent and fixed
        > >context order. It makes for a more comfortable user interface.
        >
        > Mind detailing exactly what you like and dislike about their changes
        > to the definition of context? (Been a while since I looked)
        >
        
        This is in the ColdX core. There is a dictionary called "context" attached to
        the $user object. The command_parse searches this dictionary for best(?)
        matches when one uses a verb that could be used with multiple objects.
        For instance, the "look" command's context might not be resolved to the
        current location as one might reasonably expect assuming a missing direct
        object. It can be finally resolved as "look Bubba" by picking up an object
        who's methods insert entries into the user's context dictionary.
        
        An interesting side effect for sure. We had discussed earlier the prospect
        of players perverting other players namespaces. This brings up the problem/
        feature of objects and locations perverting a users default context search in
        their command interface.
        
        I don't particularly care for this. But it is interesting nonetheless.
        
        > Absolutely. However those are not quite the forms of state flags we
        > have been discussing. I've no problem in using flags to distinguish
        > among cleanly iterated functional sets, but using them to define
        > arbitrary states from an analog spectrum is silly.
        >
        OK, more on that combat stuff and why I use a state flag and not
        a combat object.
        
        I don't consider combat to be an analog state, so I do use a flag to
        represent this condition. While in this "state" the behavior of the user
        interface changes, the rate of energy expended by a character changes
        and behavior of certain skill sets change also. I guess where I differ
        from current implementations is the player can voluntarily enter and exit
        this state at any time. If attacked a player is never forced into automatic
        retaliation. Any of the potential participants in a melee may chose to
        exit the combat state at any time. This need not involve "fleeing" in the
        traditional sense. Many times it is apparent that an opponent is crippled
        or otherwise ineffective, and its often not in the best interests to press
        such an attack. Most of my action "socials" actually perform the attended
        action with the expected result, thus slap, thwock, punch can and will do
        damage to their victim. Assuming no retaliation by your victim you can
        certainly at least render them unconscious without ever entering the combat
        state.
        Entering the state has its advantages and disadvantages. Primarily your
        full skill potentials are used and combat is partially automated (insert combat
        scripts here - something yet to be developed) Most, if not all, normal actions are
        available to you, although the difficult rating increases depending on the
        skill being exercised. Some awareness skills are enhanced and some are
        severely crippled. Some skills cannot be utilized unless actively engaged
        in combat (ala parry). Expenditure of exhaustion points increases to due
        adrenaline rush and intense concentration. It is certainly a possibility for
        two heavily armored and otherwise evenly matched warriors to collapse
        from exhaustion before resolving the battle to a successful conclusion
        especially on a very hot day.
        Of course it might be nice to have some sort of combat state threshold
        configuration to allow a character the ability for auto-retaliation. And of
        course when to exit (ala wimpy).
        
        > >The result is object oriented code that can be as difficult to follow
        > >as unstructured code. The LP and MOO libs I have seen exhibit their
        > >own set of horrors along this line.
        >
        > I see more of the horrors as sourced in contributants to the library
        > being unfamiliar with the library as a whole, or its basic design
        > approach.
        >
        This is probably the source of much of what I have seen, since most of
        the mudlibs in release have been team efforts over a long time frame.
        
        A key OO concept is blurred here. The distinction between class
        and object instance. In Cold this has led to the $frob and what I
        would call the prototype object or more properly the class descriptor
        object. For example there exists a $connection object which contains
        all the methods and attributes necessary for handling a socket
        connection. When a new connection is made a new object is created
        that inherits $connection instead of an instance of $connection.
        Instancing is can only be done through inheritance. The inheritance
        tree depth can easily double and since methods can be protected, private
        or public the "instanced" object is not neccessarily like the object that
        spawned it (and attribute variables also since the last release)
        It is difficult to determine the order of calls in multiple inheritance
        for like named methods. trace() reveals it when they exist, however
        it's currently only documented by looking at the server internals.
        (for variables, it is different and I haven't checked it out yet)
        
        Now all of this is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does require a
        significantly different approach to implementing an OO design than
        other OOP languages.
        
        JL
        
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list Chris Gray
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list Adam Wiggins
- Issues from the digests and Wout's list Jeff Kesselman
ListMail dupes coder@ibm.net
Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues Nathan Yospe
- Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues Chris Gray
- - Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues coder@ibm.net
  - Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues Carter T Shock
  - - Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues Nathan Yospe
    - Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues claw@null.net
- Threads, IO handling, and Event Queues coder@ibm.net
mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) Carter T Shock
- mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) Nathan Yospe
- mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) Chris Gray
- mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) claw@null.net
- - mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) Chris Gray
  - - mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) claw@null.net
    - - mud grammar (was Just a bit of musing) Chris Gray
mud grammar Carter T Shock
- mud grammar Nathan Yospe
- - mud grammar Alex Oren
  - - mud grammar Nathan Yospe
- mud grammar Adam Wiggins
- mud grammar Chris Gray
Just a bit of musing (VRML) Dmitri Kondratiev
- Just a bit of musing (VRML) claw@null.net
Room coding Nathan Yospe
- Room coding Furball
command parsing Chris Gray
- command parsing Adam Wiggins
- command parsing claw@null.net
Room coding S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- Room coding Chris Gray
Resets and repops Furball
- Resets and repops claw@null.net
- Resets and repops Jon A. Lambert
- - Resets and repops claw@null.net
  - - Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
    - - Resets and repops Jon A. Lambert
      - Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Travis Casey
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Shawn Halpenny
        Resets and repops Jeff Kesselman
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Jon A. Lambert
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
      - Resets and repops claw@null.net
      - Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
    - Resets and repops Jon A. Lambert
  - Resets and repops Furball
- Resets and repops Chris Gray
- - Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
  - - Resets and repops claw@null.net
    - - Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
      - Resets and repops claw@null.net
      - Resets and repops Chris Gray
      - Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
        Resets and repops coder@ibm.net
        Resets and repops S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
        Resets and repops clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Resets and repops S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
      - Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
      - Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Nathan Yospe
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops lhulbert@czn.com
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
        Resets and repops claw@null.net
        Resets and repops Adam Wiggins
        Resets and repops Chris Gray
- Resets and repops Chris Gray
- Resets and repops claw@null.net
- Resets and repops claw@null.net
- Resets and repops claw@null.net
mud grammar claw@null.net
- mud grammar Nathan Yospe
- - mud grammar claw@null.net
List software claw@null.net
- List software Nathan Yospe
- List software Chris Gray
- List software claw@null.net
- List software claw@null.net
I got your message..! MAYA DASWANI
3D graphics claw@null.net
Sorry for the dups (again) coder@ibm.net
mud grammar Jon A. Lambert
- mud grammar claw@null.net
- - mud grammar Nathan Yospe
  - - mud grammar coder@ibm.net
    - - mud grammar Nathan Yospe
      - mud grammar Chris Gray
      - mud grammar claw@null.net
EVOLUTION response claw@null.net
- EVOLUTION response Jon A. Lambert
- - EVOLUTION response claw@null.net
Garbage Collector Artur 'Revinor' Biesiadowski
A perspective out of time - the mudreport document Nathan Yospe
- A perspective out of time - the mudreport document claw@null.net
Old missing posts from old list coder@ibm.net
Execution Chris Gray
- Execution Nathan Yospe
- Execution Furball
- - Execution Jeff Kesselman
  - Execution Chris Gray
- Execution Cynbe ru Taren
Mixture Furball
- Mixture Adam Wiggins
- - Mixture Travis S Casey
  - - Mixture Adam Wiggins
    - Mixture Nathan Yospe
  - Mixture Furball
  - - Mixture Adam Wiggins
    - - Mixture Furball
      - Mixture Adam Wiggins
        Mixture Furball
        Mixture coder@ibm.net
        Mixture coder@ibm.net
    - Mixture Nathan Yospe
  - Mixture claw@null.net
  - - Mixture Adam Wiggins
    - - Mixture claw@null.net
      - Mixture Adam Wiggins
        Mixture Jon A. Lambert
- Mixture claw@null.net
- Mixture claw@null.net
- Mixture claw@null.net
- Mixture S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- - Mixture Adam Wiggins
  - Mixture Furball
- Mixture claw@null.net
- - Mixture Nathan Yospe
  - Mixture Jon A. Lambert
Resets and repops (a really short post) claw@null.net
- Resets and repops (a really short post) Nathan Yospe
- - Resets and repops (a really short post) claw@null.net
  - - Resets and repops (a really short post) Adam Wiggins
    - - Resets and repops (a really short post) claw@null.net
      - Resets and repops (a really short post) Nathan Yospe
    - Resets and repops (a really short post) Nathan Yospe
Resets and repops (a really short post) <= hah! Chris Gray
VT100 codes ... Khanone@aol.com
VT102 codes Adam Wiggins
- VT102 codes Adam Wiggins
- - VT102 codes Adam Wiggins
Dupes coder@ibm.net
Efficiency Chris Gray
Event Handling Nathan Yospe
- Event handling Shawn Halpenny
- - Event handling Vadim Tkachenko
  - Event handling Maddy
A brief introduction.. ok, you got me: an introduction Greg Munt
- A brief introduction.. ok, you got me: an introduction Adam Wiggins
- A brief introduction.. ok, you got me: an introduction coder@ibm.net
Greetings. :) Michael Hohensee
- Greetings. :) claw@null.net
- - Greetings. :) Nathan Yospe
  - Greetings. :) Michael Hohensee
  - - Greetings. :) coder@ibm.net
    - - Greetings. :) Nathan Yospe
      - Greetings. :) Chris Gray
        Greetings. :) coder@ibm.net
        Greetings. :) Chris Gray
        Greetings. :) Nathan Yospe
        Greetings. :) Jeff Kesselman
        Greetings. :) Chris Gray
        Greetings. :) Greg Munt
        Greetings. :) Jon A. Lambert
        Greetings. :) Nathan Yospe
        Greetings. :) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
        Greetings. :) Furball
        Greetings. :) Chris Gray
        Greetings. :) clawrenc@xsvr1.cup.hp.com
      - Greetings. :) Shawn Halpenny
      - Greetings. :) Jeff Kesselman
        Greetings. :) Shawn Halpenny
        Greetings. :) Jeff Kesselman
        Greetings. :) Shawn Halpenny
        Greetings. :) Jon A. Lambert
        Greetings. :) Jeff Kesselman
        Greetings. :) Shawn Halpenny
        Greetings. :) Jon A. Lambert
        Greetings. :) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Greetings. :) Jeff Kesselman

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