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[Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:22:43PM -0500, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> Hmm.. could we take a dual approach? a "sorcery" spell which does nothing
> but list depends and stay sustained, and an "update_sorcery" function in
> sorcery itself? As far as gaze version and such, you are write. But users
> could jsut run sorcery and look. Not /as/ nice, but its there.

 Well, possibly. However the more I think about it, the more I agree
 that sorcery probably would do best *not* being a spell. However
 we really need to think about how things should behave in this
 respect.

> I dont know. It just seems like using sorcery routines to update sorcery
> routines is inherently unstable, because at some point in the process, the
> system is hosed on the disk, and sorcery only exists in memory. and that
> leads to crap like power outages hosing systems... or 1 bug in a spell
> leaving a system hosed.. etc.

 I agree completely. 
 
- Nick