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Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Using numbers for the name of aliases is a no-no, correct? I just went through helping a friend fix a strange issue, and we tracked it down to him having aliases with names like '1' and '212'. I remember something like this happening before, but I couldn't find it with the forum search.

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:34 am

Yep. It conflicts with %eval. Changing them to #ONINPUTs seems to work, though. Here is my post on it from back in 2.18!

Charneus

Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Ah, thank you. I suppose this should be reposted on the BETA forum since it's been so long.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

It should probably be added to the "Changes for Zmud users" page. I've put a comment on that page suggesting it.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Well, you can't use an alias in %eval() anyways. Aliases don't return results, so something like %eval(23 - whatshesaid) would never resolve into the number you expected.

Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Hate to rebump, but I keep running into this situation when helping other people. Nowhere does it state that aliases with numbers for names is a no-no. If they aren't meant to be used, then they shouldn't be allowed to be made. It's gotten to the point where whenever someone has a strange issue with cmud, I ask if they have any alises like this. This may seem like a small issue, but it's completely breaking some people's trigger systems.

Edit: Oops, I didn't post this in the beta forum in the first place. My bad. This is still an issue with 3.16b.

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:49 am

#HELP #ALIAS

first paragraph

Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Oh, well I guess it does, though that must be newish. I still see it as a pretty big issue, seeing as I've run into it with several different people now. Disallowing their creation would be the best fix, in my opinion.

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:00 am

That was exactly the case in early versions of CMUD but Zugg got so many complaints for compatibility with zMUD that he had to allow them to be created.

Adept Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 264 Location: USA

i dont see why %eval even considers evaluating alias names in the 1st place... just seems silly

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:37 pm

Well, the issue with %eval is really a bug in the parser, but it's a super low priority since numeric aliases isn't something you should be doing anyway.