Re: Inform: Code for a Scale?


Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:48:39 -0400

furiop@cii3130-01.its.rpi.edu (Fury Op) writes:
> I was going to use a deamon, but the timing on when that will run is
> unpredictable,

I came up with a replacement set of Inform daemon/timer routines which
run predictably -- that is, the daemons and timers run in an order
determined by a new "daemonpriority" property. When priorities are
equal, they run in the order they were started in.

The drawback is that it's illegal to call start a daemon or timer from
inside a daemon or timer routine. (Stopping is ok.)

I guess I'll post them, after I go home and get them and look them
over again.

(Before you ask about each_turns -- they're run by traversing bits of
the object tree, so ordering them is a lot harder.)

--Z

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