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<LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: James Wilson <<A HREF="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:00:20 -0500</LI>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Leonard wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:53:29PM +0100, The Arrow wrote:
>> 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?
>
>My current thoughts on this:
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>I don't want to use C++, because it doesn't have the object model I want.
can you elaborate?
>An interface should have a name, and an array of function structures
>like those exported by modules, except without the function pointers.
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>We should have a source verifier that checks that the claimed interface
>(name-mangled version of the function, or whatever) matches the prototype
>of the function pointer.
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>There should be a separate collection of defined interfaces, so a module
>can just say "I implement interface X" (this can be verified, of course)
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>This database of interfaces shouldn't be monolithic -- I don't want to have
>to know about all interfaces that someone else might define.
>
>Explicit interfaces shouldn't be needed to make runnable MUDs, just
>helpful in configuring them.
did you see my proposal for how this could be done very easily in C++? the
mapping is pretty straightforward.
James
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00570" HREF="msg00570.html">[MUD-Dev] DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
The Arrow <a href="mailto:arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com">arrow#trelleborg,mail.telia.com</a>, Wed 28 Oct 1998, 18:23 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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<LI><strong><A NAME="00583" HREF="msg00583.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
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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<LI><strong><A NAME="00584" HREF="msg00584.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Fri 30 Oct 1998, 02:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00602" HREF="msg00602.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,slimy.com">jleonard#divcom,slimy.com</a>, Fri 30 Oct 1998, 22:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00604" HREF="msg00604.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Fri 30 Oct 1998, 23:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00682" HREF="msg00682.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD: Inheritable modules</A></strong>,
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Mon 02 Nov 1998, 10:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00696" HREF="msg00696.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, 03:18 GMT
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