[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Server/ruleset unification [Was [RFC PATCH] init_techs]

[Arien Malec <arien_malec@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1) The normal way to terminate a command is with '\n', but a create or
> object
> > set command is terminated with ';\n', since those sorts of commands are
> likely
> > to span lines
> 
> This is bad since the seperation f the commands into the two groups
> isn't obvious to the user.

Alternatives are:

1) Require that all commands be ';\n' terminated (which is an annoyance for
most commands)
2) Require that an object create or set be newline terminated (which makes it
hard to read
3) Have different termination rules for the server command line & rulesets
4) Disallow the (IMHO) convenient multi-attribute setting in create & object
set

Mostly the object create will be done in rulesets & the object set will be done
on command line (overrides of ruleset stuff), perhaps a reasonable solution is
to make the 'create' command be the only oddball.

> > 2) Many of the commands either take a simple attribute or an object spec.
> An
> > object spec can always be distingushed by the presence of the reserved word
> > 'object'.
> 
> Bad since "object" is redundant.

For now, 'object' is redundant. The mention of 'tech' or 'player' will suffice
to distinguish an object set from an attribute set. BUT (and the reason I
introduced the keyword) that means that if we introduce a new object, it can't
be the same name as an existing attribute. On reflection, that might be fine.

Arien

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