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2.3.1 Definition of standard and library objects

As I have explained earlier the gamedriver really knows very little about the actual game, actually as little as possible. Instead the mudlib is entrusted to take care of all that. So, what we have done is to try to work out what basic functionality is needed, things like how objects should interact with players, moving, light-level descriptions etc. Then we have created basic object classes that implement these functionalities in actual code.

A domain wizard doesn't have spend endless hours trying to figure out how to make an object work in relation to others in respect to basic functionality. Instead he just makes his object inherit the standard object suitable for the task he wants to code. Then he just adds the bits and pieces of code to the object that is necessary to make it unique and do the things that are special for that particular object.

A consequence of this naturally is that all objects in the game rely 100% on the fact that a certain type of object (room, monster, gadget) has a certain set of common functionality. They simply have to have that in order to be able to interact in the agreed way, if they didn't, if people had different ways of solving the same problem, the objects would only work with a certain wizard's area and never outside of it. It would then not be possible use a sword all over the game, it wouldn't even be possible to move it around from place to place. Naturally this means that we enforce this unity, and therefore it is impossible to create (and use) objects that don't inherit these special objects. Sure, as you can see for yourself later, it is possible to create a sword that doesn't make use of the standard weapon object, but it is perfectly impossible to wield it...

The standard objects provide certain basic functionality that must exist in all objects and they also make a bit of sanity checking on values of certain variables, but the latter really is a very minor functionality.

There are standard objects for a lot of purposes, the most important one is `/std/object.c' though.

2.3.1.1 The base object class, /std/object.c		The base object class
2.3.1.2 Standard object classes		A list of all object classes
2.3.1.3 Standard library objects