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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:44 pm

#sayadd only takes one parameter, unlike the other printish commands (#say, #sayprompt, #show etc) which concat their parameters. This means that this:

#say Hello world!

prints "Hello world!" but this:

#sayadd Hello world!

only prints "Hello". Minor issue because all you have to do is make it one parameter (#sayadd "Hello world!"), but it's inconsistent.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Shouldn't you be doing it this way anyway?

#say {Hello world!}
#sayadd { Hello again world!}

#say is letting you be lazy but correct syntax uses the {}

Or at least that is the way I always understood it.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:03 pm

Yes. My point's simply that it's not consistent; either they should all let you be lazy, or none of them should. #sayadd doesn't have any other parameters, so it's not a problem changing it I don't think.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

IIRC, wasn't #say changed to not allow laziness in one of the first few CMud releases, but everyone hated it?

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:12 pm

Couldn't find anything in the version history that'd suggest that, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen. I'm not surprised people hated it, though.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:51 pm

Yeah, this is done on purpose. The only reason the older commands still support this is for zMUD compatibility. But it's a huge parser kludge to enable this, so I don't really want to keep kludging new commands too. I just want people to start remembering to use {}.