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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: The Arrow <<A HREF="mailto:arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com">arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:53:29 +0100 (CET)</LI>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jon Leonard wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:20:20PM +0100, The Arrow wrote:
> > There have been a lot of talk about modules, how to implement them, and how
> > to send messages between them. But so far I haven't seen anything about
> > inheritable modules. I know it wouldn't be trivial to make a good
> > implementation, but once done they might make DevMUD even more OO and
> > extensible. What do you think about it?
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> I don't want to do OO just for OO's sake. I take the view that different
> projects benefit from different programming techniques, and I don't see how
> some of them help us here.
Of course not. Nothing should be done just for the sake of doing it.
(At least thats what I think.) This was just something I thought of right
before I went to sleep a few nights ago (many of my best thoughts come
then, unfortunatly most of them I forget during sleep).
> Interface inheritance: Useful for making modules interchangable. Specify
> the interface you want, and any modules that match it (or are a
> superset) will work. I like this, and plan to use it for a telnet
> module working as a superset of a socket module.
It was something like this I thought of when I wrote the mail.
The problem with interface inheritance, is how to export the interface.
If the modules is written in C++ and we are using external inheritance
(as described by Nicklas) the subclassing should be pretty simple. But how
should the driver know what interface (and module) to use runtime?
/ Joachim
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00699" HREF="msg00699.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 03 Nov 1998, 04:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00703" HREF="msg00703.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Tue 03 Nov 1998, 04:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00573" HREF="msg00573.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,slimy.com">jleonard#divcom,slimy.com</a>, Wed 28 Oct 1998, 23:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00579" HREF="msg00579.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
The Arrow <a href="mailto:arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com">arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com</a>, Thu 29 Oct 1998, 17:56 GMT
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Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,slimy.com">jleonard#divcom,slimy.com</a>, Fri 30 Oct 1998, 00:48 GMT
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