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#46 power? is a little inflexible
The power? primitive seems to insist on the full power
names instead of the handy shortcuts. The same holds
true for the @power command.
Example code:
me @ "r" power?
always returns false despite me having the
CONTROL_ALL power:
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- I'm currently circumventing this with a blob of code like
- the one shown below, but.... I guess my point is clear.
-
str2power[ string:input -- string:output ] (translate
power shortcuts to full string)
input @
case
"m" strcmp not when "ALL_MUF_PRIMS"
end
"a" strcmp not when "ANNOUNCE" end
"b" strcmp not when "BOOT" end
"c" strcmp not when "CHOWN_ANYTHING"
end
"r" strcmp not when "CONTROL_ALL"
end
"f" strcmp not when "CONTROL_MUF"
end
"x" strcmp not when "EXPANDED_WHO"
end
"h" strcmp not when "HIDE" end
"i" strcmp not when "IDLE" end
"l" strcmp not when "LINK_ANYWHERE"
end
"g" strcmp not when "LONG_FINGERS"
end
"n" strcmp not when "NO_PAY" end
"o" strcmp not when "OPEN_ANYWHERE"
end
"p" strcmp not when "PLAYER_CREATE"
end
"u" strcmp not when "PLAYER_PURGE"
end
"s" strcmp not when "SEARCH" end
"e" strcmp not when "SEE_ALL" end
"w" strcmp not when "STAFF" end
"d" strcmp not when "SHUTDOWN" end
"t" strcmp not when "TELEPORT" end
default pop "" end
endcase
; PUBLIC str2power
Cyas, Thygrrr
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Moving this to feature requests.
-Akari
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Bah! You kids spoiled by your newfangled strings! Why in my
day we had to use BINARY to access the POWERS flags! Not
only that, strings didn't even EXIST back then! We had rows
and rows of lights! And you didn't get punch cards or
keyboards, you had to tap -two wires- together to make it
work! And if you programmed it incorrectly, the program
would crash and take the -entire powergrid- down with it!
And don't even get me started about integer math, not to
mention floating point! Back in my day, the closest you'd get
to "floating point" was a safety pin hanging from a piece of
thread!