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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 10:49:48AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Vladim?r Marek <vlmarek AT volny.cz>:
> > Because it seems that persistent variable feature are sometimes misused,
> > I wrote short info about them at
> > http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Persistence . Especially if
> > you're writing spells, please take a minute and look there. Thank you :)
> > Ofcourse any comments/suggestions/criticism is welcomed.
> 
> Thank you. :) I did a little spelling and grammar cleanup, but I may have
> missed/messed up a few things. ;)
> 
> What happens if you try to do a persisten_add or config_query on an already
> existing variable (such as OPTS)? How can we use config_query (or another
> method) to add to OPTS (if OPTS is already considered persistent, can we 
> just
> do: OPTS="$OPTS <new options>" and it will be persistent during the cast 
> (and
> not saved, otherwise multiple casts would continually add <new options> to 
> the
> end ;))?
> 
There is a config_query_options which you can use for that. However you
can mess with them as much as you want after persistent_add'ing them
if I understand things right.

Variables marked persistent are saved and then cleared between spells
files (and thus spells).

-Andrew


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