[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud thread summary

[Jo Dillon <emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk>]

I believe, but don't know for certain, that the idea was to reduce
the number of reserved words. It's certainly a bit bizarre.

Adam J. Thornton (adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU) spake thusly:

> Which brings me to a point that is certainly language-implementation
> relevant, but not necessarily mud-specific:
> 
> WHY does C use the same keyword, "static," for "function you can't see
> outside this source file" and "Variable whose value persists between
> function calls" ?
> 
> Is there some perfectly good reason for this that I've never understood?
> Or is it just overloading for the sake of overloading?
> 
> If 2), let's be really careful to *not* do this in our MUD language.

  Agreed ;)

> Adam
> -- 
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	Jo

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