heeyyy... this was like my first post to the list. http://www.the-infinite.org/lists/romlist/2000/11/msg00018.html
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 04:57 pm, Dominic J. Eidson wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Hi Sandi, Palrich, et al. > > Gruf. (read: Greetings, mere mortal child) > > > A couple of years ago, in my ambition to help the ROM community, > > I came up with the idea of "programmable strings". > > The concept was to have strings that could be programmed. > > > > That is something like ... sometimes the string would say... > > "Its a beautiful day outside" or "Its very dark because a storm is > > brewing overhead"... > > This has been done before, keep reading for more information.. > > > I know how to do this. I can say this with some finality now. In fact, > > I'm reasonably positive that I could complete it in some short time. > > But I'm not interested. > > I know how to do this. I've been able to say this since, according to my > help file, mid-June of 1999. I'm not interested either. > > > So my interest wanned. Indeed, it hasn't been revived. I will be > > implementing something like it in my mud... but I wouldn't do it in ROM. > > Not that Rom's a bad code base at all! (Since I am writing my own.) > > ROM blows balls, but it does have it's good sides - a few of them > involving simplicity of getting noobs interested in it. > > [snip] > > Ladies and gentlemen, let my point your attention towards Quzah's website, > specifically the amount of code (known amongst you younglings as "a > snippet") called "Quzah's Interactive Descriptions (short: QID): > > http://www.quzah.org/snips.html > > Quzah's Interactive Descriptions; Unified Version 01 This is a > parser/translator for description strings. It allows for customized > descriptions based on the character that is looking at them. > > Enjoy. > > > - d.
