Re: Built in verbs.

• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:14:33 PDT
• From:
  Rich Connamacher <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu>
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> But this does not work with built in functions, -ie
> @verb #0:"bf_foo1 bf_foo2" tnt rxd
> verb = verb[4..length(verb)];
> return (verb)(@args);
> 
> The solution I used was a nice long chain of elseif statements, as I did 
> not want to make seperate verbs for each when they called basically the 
> same syntax.
> 
> Does anybody know of a better solution?

Yeah, use the builtin function call_function(function, @args...) to call it

return call_function(verb, @args);

Phantom

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