RE: [mlist] RE: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

Python has "pickling" to do this. Or you can do it the way you do everything
else - assign all objects a unique ID, and save the stuff out manually,
replacing pointers with IDs. Which is essentially what pickling does.

You don't need to use stackless Python to get latent functions (if they're
what I think they are) - check out "generators" in standard Python - they
have most of the same capabilities. We didn't opt for stackless because it
was pretty ropey at the time. It's getting rapidly better though - it may be
worth a look these days (EVE Online are using it).

Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan-Assen Ivanov [mailto:as...@ha...]
> Sent: 22 April 2003 22:37
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [mlist] RE: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting 
> languages
> 
> 
> > Python works well for us on all the consoles (NGC, PS2, XBox).
> 
> How do you store the state of the interpreters, or does
> the "no arbitrary moment savegames" nature of most console
> games save you from this?
> 
> Resolving the pointers embedded within interpreter stacks
> was one of the two major issues we had to resolve for our
> custom scripting system - and that we don't want to have to
> resolve yet again. On the other hand, our custom scripting
> language sucks in more ways than one, and I would be happy
> to scrap it and integrate a "real language" instead.
> 
> (Latent functions a la UnrealScript being the other
> major issue, but Stackless Python seems to be able 
> to support that.)
> 
> regards,
> Assen
> 
> 
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