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From: coder@ibm.net
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 02 May 97 21:39:09 -0700
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On 02/05/97 at 08:33 PM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk@tenetwork.com> said: >At
08:08 PM 5/2/97 PST8PDT, coder@null.net wrote:
>>I model these animations as events. A mobile moves his next step by
>>having a closing event log a new event to step him forward some time in
>>the future.
>Pardon me, but it soudns like syntactic sugar on top of a timer event.
>I just don't see it as beign paradigmaticly really all that different
>from animating off of a generic call back timer. I have sucha thing in
>my Cold core runnign off the heartbeat,as I suspect virtually every Cold
>core does.
The difference here, and yes it could be considered mere semantics, is
that I have no such thing as aheart beat (I absolutely refuse to ever have
anything similar to a heartbeat). The rest is fairly similar to a generic
call back timer except that it is handled internally to the server so
there is no callback per se -- an arguably specious distinction.
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