Re: Map ideas

[Justin Mason <jm@maths.tcd.ie>]

In Mark's message of Fri, 18 Feb 94 23:55:38 PST, he sez:

> or you could more easily change the exits by editing the map in your
>favorite editor, and do a search/replace with the new map name.  You
>could even use sed if you wanted to.

How's about using a preprocessor, like CPP, on the map files during
loading? This would allow map admins to move things around easily,
without requiring hacking on the source.

eg., #define ENTERED_FROM "/blah/house" or whatever.

It'd also allow repetitive patterns to be easily simplified, and
#ifdefs would become possible. We (TrinityMOO) used to use it
lots for our MOO source code when TMOO was up.

ObCrossfire: haven't compiled the new one yet -- real work's
getting in the way -- but I will, don't worry about that! ;)

-- 
Justin Mason (Iona Technologies' unix caretaker, fixer-upper and disk-filler)
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