On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote: > > And btw . . . Wouldn't > > > > $thing has property > > > > make more sense than > > > > $thing is property > > "$foo has true" doesn't flow as well as "$foo is true". Dunno quite > what the other expected uses are. Veracity is the ability to be true. Veracity is the property of truthfulness? $thing has veracity. $thing's veracity is true. An object environment I prototyped a few years ago used something similar. There were five levels of objects: Level 0 object: object (the fundamental building block of the universe) Level 1 objects: aspect (a reusable property for templates) is an object template (an intangible, ideal object) is an object Aspects (level 2): clothing (the ability to be worn) is an aspect containable (the ability to be somewhere) is an aspect container (the ability to contain things) is an aspect lidded (the ability to be sealed) is an aspect owner (the ability to own something) is an aspect posession (the ability to be owned) is an aspect session (the ability to service connections) is an aspect shell (the ability to parse commands) is an aspect tcpd (the ability to accept tcp socket connections) is an aspect etc. Templates (level 3): actor (a base class for players) is a template with container, containable, session and shell properties. container (an ideal tangible container) is a template having container properties. lidded container (an ideal sealable container) is a template having container and lidded properties. login daemon (something which answers remote connections and authenticates identities) is a template having tcpd properties. thing (an ideal tangible object) is a template with containable and posession properties. etc. Real tangible objects (level 4): the login server is a login daemon rocco is an actor rocco's backpack is a lidded container schwern is an actor schwern's pants are clothing schwern's fish is a thing etc. Hmm... perhaps I should include magic clothing: a template with clothing, container and lidded properties. -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
