On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Mysidia wrote: >> PS: A little over one month until send_to_char() gets variable arguments >> and its parameters flipped. Have you changed yours yet? > >Ack.. that sounds like a horrible idea.. imagine the compatibility >nightmares between snippets, patches, and post-XXX versions that changing >semantics of such a commonly-used function would cause and the pain >that's bound to cause people who want to contribute and use contributions It's so much nicer to have when getting rid of all the global buffers. Having a string buffer around for a single send_to_char() that can be taken care of elsewhere is dumb. Due to lack of a standard multiple argument macro capability, there's no way to keep the same name in a compatible way. >And the snippets on the ftp site would need to be divided into >"Snippets that require circle x+1.y.z+" and "Snippets that require "x.y.z.." The change is trivial. People already have to figure out ASCII/binary for some patches, which is a lot harder than this ever will be. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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