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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:51:32 -5
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 3 May 98 at 9:34, Chris Gray wrote:
>
[snip]
> Hmm. I guess one could argue that anything like this is really just syntactic
> sugar, since you could rewrite it as:
>
> phase2event() {
> phase2();
> }
>
> event() {
> phase1();
> schedule event phase2event;
> }
>
> Would this even be worth considering?
>
You have hit the very essence of what I am doing with your second
example. The first example would be an extension for me. I hadn't
thought of it until just now, when you bonked me over the head with
it. :)
I think I will address the downside in my next reply.
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