Re: virtual/real variable types

From: Daniel A. Koepke (dkoepke@circlemud.org)
Date: 12/07/01


(Responding to two messages in this thread at once.)

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, krenshala wrote:

> Hmm... It's tempting to switch mine to (unsigned?) ints, since there ARE
> no players in mine (yet).

There should be no technical problems with doing so aside from breaking
binary compatability.  Of course, if you're truly a technically ambitious
group... who needs numbers, anyway?

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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, The Arrow wrote:

> Another reason to use ascii files as much as possible then, which I of
> course am doing.

Unfortunately, this is a legacy concern.  If it were purely a matter of
unconstrained choice, things would be different.

-dak

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