| --- Log opened Sun Apr 15 00:00:53 2007 |
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| 00:37 | | * McMartin notices he has failed to implement > GIVE {NPC} WHAT FOR as a synonym for > ATTACK, fixes this grievous oversight |
| 01:15 | <@McMartin> | Understand the command "raid" as "search".[* The Scholars launch plenty of raids, but the only item the player is ever really cued to raid is the fridge.] |
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| 01:29 | | * gnolam hugs his 68k. |
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| 01:30 | <@McMartin> | Doing some old-school Amiga hacking, are we? |
| 01:31 | <@gnolam> | I was digging through x86 code a couple of minutes ago. I felt I needed to cleanse myself. |
| 01:31 | <@Vornicus> | That, or Sega Genesis, or old-school Mac |
| 01:31 | < MyCatVerbs> | Amiga was 68k? |
| 01:32 | | * gnolam thwaps MyCatVerbs over the head with a Fat Agnus. |
| 01:35 | <@McMartin> | 68030 by the end of its useful life, IIRC, MCV. |
| 01:35 | <@McMartin> | IMNRC, though. |
| 01:35 | < MyCatVerbs> | Oook. |
| 01:36 | <@gnolam> | International Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Research Center? |
| 01:36 | < MyCatVerbs> | Didn't Amigas use to be able to run DOS code or something like that? |
| 01:36 | <@McMartin> | gnolam: I May Not Remember Correctly |
| 01:36 | <@McMartin> | MCV: By jamming an x86 in the cartridge slot, IIRC. |
| 01:36 | <@gnolam> | Unless you're referring to AmigaDOS. |
| 01:37 | < MyCatVerbs> | Good place to stick it. |
| 01:37 | < MyCatVerbs> | gnolam: that might well be it, I'm fuzzy on details. |
| 01:38 | <@gnolam> | I should really rescue my old Amiga from the moldy old cellar it's stored in. :-/ |
| 01:40 | | * gnolam decides to crash his computer instead. |
| 01:40 | <@gnolam> | 30 s to go... |
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| 01:51 | <@ToxicFrog> | I should probably document and release this framework now that it's finished. |
| 01:52 | < MyCatVerbs> | Documentation would be an awesome idea. |
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| 02:07 | <@ToxicFrog> | ...says the person who's never going to use it. |
| 02:11 | < MyCatVerbs> | You *entirely* sure of that? |
| 02:18 | <@ToxicFrog> | Well, given your total lack of interest in, and knowledge of, Lua... |
| 02:19 | < MyCatVerbs> | ^6 |
| 02:19 | < MyCatVerbs> | *^^ |
| 02:25 | | * ToxicFrog fiddles with tableproxies |
| 02:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | Aha! I think I see how to do this. |
| 02:27 | < MyCatVerbs> | ? |
| 02:29 | <@ToxicFrog> | The proxy is a userdata of size 1. It has a metatable. This metatable, when generated, gets a function for each metamethod on the object it's a proxy for; this function merely invokes the corresponding metamethod on the proxied object with the correct self. |
| 02:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | Furthermore, default metmethods for __index and __newindex will be provided if none are present in the metamethods, as otherwise the proxy is kind of useless. |
| 02:42 | <@ToxicFrog> | This also means you can overload __len and __gc and whatnot and they'll work, as well as __index and __newindex triggering on every event rather than acting as fallbacks. |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | local proxy = mkproxy() |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | getmetatable(proxy).__index = obj |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | getmetatable(proxy).__newindex = obj |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | for k,v in self.meta do |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | if type(v) == 'function' then |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | getmetatable(proxy)[k] = function(P, ...) |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | return self.meta[k](obj, ...) |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | end |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | end |
| 02:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | end |
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| 03:30 | | * ToxicFrog pokes the other #codizens |
| 03:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | I need a name for this library. |
| 03:30 | <@Vornicus> | What's it do? |
| 03:31 | <@ToxicFrog> | OO for lua (again) with a smalltalk-style recursive class tree and full operator overloading via proxy userdata. |
| 03:32 | <@Vornicus> | SmallLua? idunno |
| 03:39 | < Doctor_Nick> | "the awesome library" |
| 03:44 | <@ToxicFrog> | Too generic. Leaves no way to distinguish it from my other libraries. ?? |
| 03:48 | <@Vornicus> | pff |
| 03:54 | | * Vornicus beats POV-Ray. The syntax is fine! You are an idiot! |
| 03:54 | <@ToxicFrog> | Can't just call it "oolua" or somerthing either, because that conflicts with my other OO libraries, plus I know of at least four out there that I haven't written. |
| 03:56 | < Doctor_Nick> | "oolalua" :D |
| 04:05 | | * Vornicus throws Doctor_Nick off the earth |
| 04:05 | <@Vornicus> | TF: so what do the other OO libraries out there do? |
| 04:16 | <@ToxicFrog> | The same thing, mostly, but in different ways. |
| 04:17 | <@ToxicFrog> | One's fully prototype-based - no classes, everything's an object with a perfect copy operator - most of them work by accepting definition tables, which results in very messy and syntactically finicky class definitions. |
| 04:18 | <@ToxicFrog> | As far as I know I'm the only person to use setfenv() trickery to get around that. |
| 04:22 | < Doctor_Nick> | Vornicus: Thats a good name! :( |
| 04:45 | | * Vornicus fiddles with POV-Ray, goes "oopsies" as he arrives at a silly error. |
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| 05:14 | | * ToxicFrog finds a serious flaw in his library ;.;' |
| 05:14 | <@Vornicus> | ? |
| 05:14 | <@McMartin> | 40,729 words. |
| 05:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | Because of the order in which environments are fiddled, Foo = Class(Bar) is legal, but classes.Foo = Class(Bar) is not. |
| 05:18 | <@ToxicFrog> | Basically, the problem is that by the time Class() returns, the environment has changed. |
| 05:18 | <@ToxicFrog> | So it now tries to assign the new class definition into the class definition itself. |
| 05:21 | <@ToxicFrog> | ...also, while going from the proxy to the object is transparent, going from the object to the proxy is not possible. |
| 05:21 | <@ToxicFrog> | I'm not sure if that's a flaw or not, but I think it is. |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | Gnar. |
| 05:27 | | * ToxicFrog flails at it |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | The problem is that, in a sense, it doesn't really return until endclass() is called. |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | But then we end up writing: |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | Class(Superclass) |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | ... |
| 05:27 | <@ToxicFrog> | Subclass = endclass() |
| 05:28 | <@ToxicFrog> | Which just looks wrong. |
| 05:28 | <@Vornicus> | eeew |
| 05:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | Now, I consider both of these preferable to the definition-table syntax: |
| 05:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | Subclass = Class(Superclass) { ... } |
| 05:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | Because within the table, we end up with stuff like: |
| 05:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | someMethod = function(self, args) ... end; |
| 05:31 | <@ToxicFrog> | And god help you if you forget a semicolon. |
| 05:33 | <@Vornicus> | ...it is wahooni-shaped |
| 05:33 | | * Vornicus tries to figure out what the hell he did wrong. |
| 05:40 | | * ToxicFrog flails, goes to sleep. |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | ...actually. |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | How does this look? |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | Subclass = Class(Superclass) -- at this point Subclass is a 'proto-class' and cannot actually be instantiated |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | Subclass:startdef() |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | -- stuff goes here |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | enddef() |
| 05:47 | | * ToxicFrog pokes |
| 05:48 | <@Vornicus> | That... hm |
| 05:49 | <@Vornicus> | looks almost okay. |
| 05:51 | <@ToxicFrog> | Possible improvements? |
| 05:52 | <@Vornicus> | hrm |
| 05:52 | <@Vornicus> | Well, I don't know - it feels like the Superclass thing shoul... no, you had a problem with that |
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| 05:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | ? |
| 05:57 | <@Vornicus> | It feels like it should show in or after startdef |
| 05:59 | <@ToxicFrog> | ...it could, but that feels really weird and disturbing. |
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| 09:07 | <@McMartin> | o/~ Fuzzy dalek funny dalek dalek dalek TRUCK o/~ |
| 09:07 | | * McMartin should be sleeping, but I7 has him in the grip of madness |
| 09:07 | | * Reiver blinks. |
| 09:07 | <@Reiver> | Do I want to know the reference, McM? |
| 09:08 | <@McMartin> | ... you haven't seen The Dalek Song? |
| 09:08 | <@Reiver> | I mean, other than a Doctor Who new series thing, um... |
| 09:08 | <@McMartin> | Have you seen the Llama Song? |
| 09:08 | <@Reiver> | No? |
| 09:08 | <@McMartin> | OK, one moment |
| 09:09 | <@jerith> | Yay Dalek song! |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | 15:52 <+McMartin> Original: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | 15:52 <+McMartin> Parody: http://artistic-insanity.net/song/daleksong.html |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | 15:52 <+McMartin> Original: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | 15:52 <+McMartin> Parody: http://artistic-insanity.net/song/daleksong.html |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | Urk |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/51225707/426703 |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | There we go |
| 09:09 | <@McMartin> | Second parody |
| 09:10 | <@McMartin> | The reason it came up is a bug in the WSIF buglist, which isn't particularly spoily: |
| 09:11 | <@McMartin> | "The truck in chapter 5 should be referencable even though it appears and leaves in the same turn." |
| 09:12 | <@jerith> | I love that planet one... |
| 09:14 | <@Vornicus> | The dalek one is funnier than the llama one. |
| 09:14 | <@McMartin> | It is. |
| 09:14 | <@McMartin> | In part because the past tense of "to slay" is "slew". |
| 09:15 | <@McMartin> | "Slayed" is not correct under any circumstance. |
| 09:15 | <@Reiver> | |
| 09:15 | <@Reiver> | |
| 09:15 | <@Reiver> | The dalek one wins, yes. |
| 09:15 | <@McMartin> | "Sleighed" is correct, but means something entirely difference |
| 09:16 | <@jerith> | Did anything ever come of your Dalek medics? |
| 09:16 | <@Vornicus> | Did you ever see a dalek touch a dalek on a dalek? |
| 09:16 | <@McMartin> | DE FIB RIL LATE |
| 09:16 | <@McMartin> | DE FIB RIL LATE |
| 09:16 | <@McMartin> | No; they became an I7 bug report. ;_; |
| 09:16 | <@jerith> | Yep, those ones. |
| 09:16 | <@jerith> | :-( |
| 09:16 | <@McMartin> | In other news, WSIF is pushing 40,000 words now. |
| 09:17 | <@jerith> | After the refactoring? |
| 09:17 | <@Vornicus> | I thought it had passed 40k. |
| 09:17 | <@McMartin> | Er, yes. |
| 09:17 | <@McMartin> | It's pushing 41,000. |
| 09:17 | <@McMartin> | jerith: Yeah. The refactoring made it look much nicer. |
| 09:17 | <@McMartin> | I'm not totally ashamed to look at my own code anymore. |
| 09:17 | | * Reiver reads the second spoof. |
| 09:18 | | * Reiver has to watch it twice before he gets it, and then pffffhahahha |
| 09:18 | <@jerith> | Reiv: The planets? |
| 09:18 | <@jerith> | That's awesome. |
| 09:19 | <@Reiver> | So totally is. |
| 09:19 | <@jerith> | This iPod thing is so tiny. |
| 09:20 | <@jerith> | ('Tis a Nano. The 8gb version.) |
| 09:24 | <@jerith> | It's small enough that it verges on uncomfortable to operate. |
| 09:25 | <@Vornicus> | ...and of course I have to deal with split points in my translation function. |
| 09:25 | | * Vornicus spews hate. |
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| 09:26 | | * jerith catches and distills it. |
| 09:26 | <@Vornicus> | what, are you building a Spider Jerusalem? |
| 09:26 | | * jerith puts the seething bottle of Essence of Hate on the shelf next to the others. |
| 09:27 | <@jerith> | No, just adding to my collection. |
| 09:27 | <@jerith> | It might be useful later. |
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| 09:27 | <@jerith> | I have Avarice, Lust and Rage there as well. |
| 09:28 | <@jerith> | Rage looks similar to Hate, but has a rather different composition. |
| 09:28 | <@jerith> | Also, it needs a reinforced bottle. |
| 09:28 | <@McMartin> | You still haven't managed wrath. Weak. |
| 09:29 | <@jerith> | When I tried to elicit it I got Rage instead. |
| 09:29 | <@McMartin> | Ah well. |
| 09:31 | <@jerith> | I suppose I need to target someone a little higher in the hierarchy. |
| 09:31 | <@jerith> | You need a certain kind of person to extract wrath. |
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| 15:24 | | * ToxicFrog looks at his code, looks at the metamethod resolution code, swears quietly. |
| 15:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | Hmm. |
| 15:48 | <@ToxicFrog> | I think the name actually goes in startdef. |
| 15:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | The problem with using proxy objects is that getmetatable() and pairs() behave very oddly when used externally. |
| 16:00 | <@ToxicFrog> | Ok. Now comes the bootstrapping. |
| 16:10 | <@ToxicFrog> | It bootstraps! |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | NewClass = Class() |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | NewClass:startdef "Class" |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | name = false |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | def = {} |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | meta = {} |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | proxymeta = {} |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | env = false |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | __call = Class.meta.__call |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | __tostring = Class.meta.__tostring |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | __init = Class.meta.__init |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | def.instanceof = instanceof |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | enddef() |
| 16:11 | <@ToxicFrog> | Class = NewClass |
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| 16:53 | | * ToxicFrog glares |
| 16:53 | <@ToxicFrog> | Ok, I need to whiteboard this. |
| 16:54 | <@Reiver> | ? |
| 16:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | My design is getting messy. |
| 16:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | I'm going to do away with the bootstrapping, it leaves too much clutter, and just hand-assemble the first Class. |
| 16:57 | <@ToxicFrog> | Also I need to come up with a good way of getting at the real metatable from inside methods. |
| 16:57 | <@ToxicFrog> | getmetatable(self) won't work, because it isn't actually applied; instead a copy of the metatable proxy is applied to the proxy userdata, and passes things on. |
| 16:58 | | * ToxicFrog ponders. A method meta(key) which returns the corresponding value in the real metatable? |
| 17:05 | <@ToxicFrog> | Ok. Here is the design. |
| 17:05 | <@ToxicFrog> | An object is actually a one-byte full userdata, with an attached metatable. |
| 17:05 | <@ToxicFrog> | This metatable is a copy of the 'real' metatable, with each function replaced by a short closure that replaces self with the object table. |
| 17:06 | <@ToxicFrog> | __index and __newindex, as well as the new metafield __obj, redirect to the object table, which holds all the actual members and methods. |
| 17:07 | <@ToxicFrog> | The method meta(key) is provided, which gets you entries from the real metatable; in particular, "proxy" will get you the proxy object, "obj" will get you the object table, and "type" will get you the class object that this object is an instance of. |
| 17:09 | | * Vornicus completes his map projection, complete with code to generate and code to apply. |
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| 17:16 | <@ToxicFrog> | ...shit, that won't work. The metatable is common to all objects of that type, but the object table is unique. |
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| 17:16 | | * Reiver seriously thinks Vorn should tell this to actual real life cartographers, if he knows any, because it is Worthy of such. |
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| 18:44 | < GeekSoldier> | any Python volken here? stupidly simple but insanely mindboggling question here. |
| 18:44 | | * GeekSoldier prepares self-flagellation unit. |
| 18:44 | | * Vornicus is Mr. Python |
| 18:44 | < GeekSoldier> | :) |
| 18:45 | < GeekSoldier> | there is a builtin function to convert from hex to dec, correct? |
| 18:45 | <@Vornicus> | If you have a string in hexadecimal, int(s,16) will convert it to an integer. |
| 18:46 | < GeekSoldier> | oh wait... |
| 18:46 | | * GeekSoldier invokes self-flagellator. |
| 18:47 | <@Vornicus> | if it's an 0x hexadecimal string, int(s, 0) will do it, and octal, and decimal |
| 18:47 | < GeekSoldier> | declared a variable in hex, when printed, it did so as decimal... |
| 18:47 | <@Vornicus> | Heh |
| 18:47 | < GeekSoldier> | thanks Vorn. had a stupid moment. |
| 18:47 | < GeekSoldier> | perhaps I should play around in IDLE before asking a question next time. |
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| 19:34 | < Attilla> | There are a lot of computer scientists or students thereof on this network, but then again these are "The Tubes" and so that gets somewhat high compared to other professions anyway. |
| 19:35 | <@Vornicus> | Yes. |
| 19:35 | <@Vornicus> | Welcome to teh intarnewbs, where you're either a jackass or a hacker |
| 19:38 | < Attilla> | So what sorts of things are discussed here then? I assume something coding-related, and I could converse about an array of silly and annoying programs I once made in Delphi whilst goofing off in a CompSci lecture. |
| 19:38 | <@Vornicus> | Everything code. |
| 19:39 | < GeekSoldier> | those would be acceptable. |
| 19:39 | < GeekSoldier> | I use it as a sounding board for all my stupidity and oversight. |
| 19:39 | <@Vornicus> | Over the past few days, everything from the underlying madness of object models to disassemblers to Interactive Fiction to, apparently, Daleks. |
| 19:39 | < GeekSoldier> | right, Vorn? |
| 19:39 | <@Vornicus> | Something like that |
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| 19:49 | <@Derakon> | Okay, here's an interesting stylistic question... |
| 19:49 | <@Derakon> | I'm writing a function to determine the degree to which a given sprite intersects another sprite, given the first sprite's velocity and assuming the second sprite is stationary. |
| 19:50 | <@Derakon> | Now, I want to check the case where the sprite's velocity is negligible and the two sprites are colliding, because that would result in an infinite loop, or close enough. |
| 19:50 | <@Derakon> | Is it better to do "if (vel.magnitude() < EPSILON && this->collides(altSprite)" before I enter the loop, or put "if (vel.magnitude() < EPSILON)" inside the loop? |
| 19:51 | <@Derakon> | The former ensures I don't do a conditional every time through the loop, but involves a usually-redundant collides() call; the latter avoids the redundant call but adds redundant if statements. |
| 19:51 | < Doctor_Nick> | Attilla: Sorry, this chatroom is dedicated solely to the discussion of Dan Brown books |
| 19:51 | <@Derakon> | Here's the current code, minus check: http://pastie.caboo.se/54023 |
| 19:52 | | * Derakon drops the Encyclopaedia Brittanica on Nick, one volume at a time. |
| 19:53 | < Doctor_Nick> | Jokes on you, that's the digital edition! |
| 19:53 | <@Derakon> | Printed out. |
| 19:53 | <@Derakon> | In binary. |
| 19:54 | < GeekSoldier> | how heavyweight are the two options? it seems that the first check costs more than the inner one. |
| 19:54 | | * Janus peer reviews the binary. |
| 19:54 | <@Derakon> | The collide check does a bounding-box check, and then iterates over pixels in the box intersection area. |
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| 19:59 | | * Derakon puts it outside the loop, on the theory that velocity will rarely be infinitesimal so the collide check will usually be avoided. |
| 20:02 | < GeekSoldier> | that makes sense. plus, you could cut back on excessive collide checks. |
| 20:02 | <@Derakon> | Eh? |
| 20:03 | < GeekSoldier> | were the check in the loop, you'd hawe to call it each iteration, right? |
| 20:03 | <@Derakon> | Yes, but it'd only be a check of if the velocity were infinitesimal. |
| 20:04 | <@Derakon> | Since I'd already know if they'd collided. |
| 20:04 | <@Derakon> | Basically my options are either 1 extra collide check, or a bunch of extra velocity checks. |
| 20:04 | < GeekSoldier> | oh. ok. |
| 20:05 | | * GeekSoldier was bass acwards. |
| 20:05 | <@Derakon> | Heh. |
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| 20:16 | <@Derakon> | Ahh, now I have non-jittery collision between player and ground without using a walking stick...except that I've lost the ability to detect when I'm grounded. Hrm. |
| 20:17 | < gnolam> | Check for parents screaming at you. |
| 20:17 | | * Derakon facepalms. |
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| 20:40 | | * Derakon fixes, woot. |
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| 20:53 | < Trunk> | hi |
| 20:54 | < Trunk> | syka pidory |
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| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | stack traceback: |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | [C]: ? |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | [C]: in function 'meta' |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | class.lua:30: in function 'meta' |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | class.lua:30: in function 'meta' |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | class.lua:30: in function 'meta' |
| 21:15 | <@ToxicFrog> | I think I have an endless recursion! |
| 21:16 | <@Derakon> | Just possibly! |
| 21:18 | | You're now known as TheWatcher[T-2] |
| 21:22 | | You're now known as TheWatcher[zZzZ] |
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| 21:29 | | * ToxicFrog finds the problem. |
| 21:29 | <@ToxicFrog> | All functions are wrapped in a translation function: |
| 21:29 | | Kiers is now known as AnnoDomini |
| 21:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | function(proxy, ...) return original_function(proxy:meta("obj"), ...) end |
| 21:30 | <@ToxicFrog> | This includes :meta(). |
| 21:37 | <@Derakon> | Whups. |
| 22:52 | | * Derakon shoots a Deathwalker 9000 with his Marro Warrior: 2 skulls. Deathwalker 9000's defense roll: 9 skulls, 1 shield. |
| 22:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | ... |
| 22:55 | <@ToxicFrog> | Pfffftftft. |
| 22:55 | <@Derakon> | That Deathwalker killed about six Marro warriors throughout the game. Fortunately I had one hiding behind a tree and standing in water. |
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| --- Log closed Mon Apr 16 00:00:53 2007 |