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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Sorcery Consistency (WAS: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel sorcery & gaze new functionality)
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:23:36 -0800

Mind if we stuff this into the documentation somewhere prominently?

Seth

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:36:28PM -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> gaze prune was moved into cleanse as --sweep, along with cast --fix
> specifically to keep what scripts did consistent. This is how I break
> things down:
> * gaze is only used for looking at spell info/state,
> * cast is only used for installing spells,
> * dispel is only used to remove installed spells,
> * scribe is only used to manage grimoires,
> * cleanse is used only to test and fix system problems,
> * sorcery is used to modify system wide state and updates, and
> * summon for downloading stuff.
> I believe this accurately reflects reality too.
>
> On Tue, 2005-25-01 at 17:40 -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > How about "gaze prune" then :-)? And how would one know that sorcery
> > doesn't do what cast does? They both change the system. These are
> > rhetorical questions, just to set people thinking.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sergey.
> >
> > Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> >
> > >I think the distinction between sorcery and gaze is that sorcery allows
> > >you to do and set things, and gaze allows you to view things in a
> > >read-only manner.
> > >
> > >Sorcery is an action with side-effects. Gazing is merely observing
> > >(ignore the minor perturbations of quantum mechanics).
> > >
> > >Perhaps scribe should be used to set stuff with sorcery remaining as the
> > >menu/gui tool.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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