[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC PATCH] init_techs

[Arien Malec <arien_malec@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you give examples? Is someone working on this?

create tech automobile {
   name = "Automobile";
   req1 = ... }

(where braces might be parens, and semicolons might be commas)

No one is actively working on it. I don't know what the status of the split
function patch is -- that's the infrastructure that comes first.
 
> I propose that the identifier doesn't depend on any actual data. The
> identifier is choosen by the user and is used only for identifying a
> certain object. The identifier won't change after the object has been
> created. This is much like the current
> "[building_asmiths_trading_co]".

Right, that's my proposal exactlly.

> Maybe I didn't understood it correctly and you mean that the
> identifier is more like a variable than an id. Than you could do
> things like:
>  a=create tech (...);
>  b=a; // assume deep copy
>  set b.name="asdda";
> and
>  a=create tech (...);
>  a=create tech (...); // oops we losse the first one

That's not my proposal but may be interesting with an embedded Python...

Arien

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