Re: [Newbie] Room/Zone limitations

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 06/19/00


On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:

>Would it, in anyone's opinion, break things to switch to an unsigned int
>or even a long?

We've been trying to make it possible with the 'room_rnum' typedef.

>Obviously, special provisions would have to be made for location -1 in the
>former, but is this the only negative value used?  Seems like an awful
>waste of rooms if so.

I've been trying to stomp out anything that assumes '<0 == NOWHERE' and
most should be gone.  So you could define '1==NOWHERE' and use an unsigned
integer in theory.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org


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