<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction --> <!--X-From-R13: Xrebra Dhvtebx/Ofzbqnv <nfzbqnvNjkf.ay> --> <!--X-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:39:49 -0700 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 35A449F6.1A5206A1#wxs,nl --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 199807090111.TAA02801@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, [MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00099.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00101.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00096.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00105.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00100">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00100">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00100">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <<A HREF="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 06:41:26 +0200</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> Chris Gray wrote: > > [Jeroen Ruigrok:] > > >Yeah, that's exactly what I meant... I just wonder if we would be good for OS > >programming too then? =) > >What do you (as the MUD-Dev list) commonly use for status control? Flags, chars, > >bitmasks or other genious inventions? > > Sure, I've done OS programming, too. Oh, that's not what you meant? :-) Ehm, not exactly, but close =) > I tend to use boolean values in server code. Occasionally I'll use bitmaps > for some flagsets, but I find it prettier not to, and for most things, the > space doesn't matter. I don't have many flag values in the most common > data structures used by the server. But wouldn't the booleans together make up a bitmask/bitmap? > Layers, yes, but also lots of fairly independent modules. E.g. in my > server, the database code is separate, the lexer for the programming > language is separate, the parser is separate, the interpreter is > separate, the socket stuff is most separate, etc. etc. I tend to think > in boxes rather than in layers, although the stuff written in the MUD > programming language is definitely layered on top of the server itself. Do you find your codebase faster than most stock code? Or easier to code upon? > There have been a number of suggestions in the last couple of months - you > should read back in the archives a bit. About the only new books I've > bought in a while have been Java ones, and NT (argh!!) ones. Better start with the latest archives then instead of at the beginning =) Ah well NT is not that bad, if it were just faster and less rebooting-like. > -- > Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA > > -- > MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist From the Tides of Hell, I sprang forth... Heaven can wait 'till another day... </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00105" HREF="msg00105.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> Ross Nicoll <rnicoll#calmar-mud,com></li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00096" HREF="msg00096.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Chris Gray <cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00099.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: In game bulletin boards vs. Web based.</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00101.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00096.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00105.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00100"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00100"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00337" HREF="msg00337.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 21:50 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00339" HREF="msg00339.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 22:08 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00343" HREF="msg00343.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 24 Jul 1998, 22:36 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00096" HREF="msg00096.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 01:13 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00100" HREF="msg00100.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <a href="mailto:asmodai#wxs,nl">asmodai#wxs,nl</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 04:39 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00105" HREF="msg00105.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#calmar-mud,com">rnicoll#calmar-mud,com</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 12:07 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00109" HREF="msg00109.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 14:11 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00110" HREF="msg00110.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 14:20 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00112" HREF="msg00112.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: An Introduction</A></strong>, Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#calmar-mud,com">rnicoll#calmar-mud,com</a>, Thu 09 Jul 1998, 17:14 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>