RE: Wierd Verb Stuff - Need Help!

• Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:55:30 PST
• From:
  Ron Stanions <chaeon@roc.clawpaw.com>
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You're close, but not close enough. :)

What you want to do is to wrap the verbname in parenthesis, like so:

cmd = "foo";
player:(cmd)();

This will call player:foo()

and changing cmd to "bar" will cause it to call player:bar()

This also works with properties, and this is also how you must do it when calling
verbs (or accessing properties) with special characters in it, such as
"@list".  


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From:  Chris Jones[SMTP:cjones@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]
Sent:  Saturday, January 27, 1996 3:35 PM
To:  moo-cows
Subject:  Wierd Verb Stuff - Need Help!


	Hi, everyone.  I'm trying to setup a verb on an object which 
works like this:
[Verb code may not work; making this off the top of my head]
cmd = "foo";
player:cmd();
[Could this be setup so that the second line will execute player:foo(), 
and then if cmd is changed (say to "bar"), that it would execute 
player:bar()?]
	I've though of a few ways, but they're not really elegant, and 
would waste server ticks:
[Example]
cmd = "foo";
if (cmd == "foo")
	player:foo();
elseif (cmd == "bar")
	player:bar();
endif
[end verb code]
	Any ideas?


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