Re: [code] This must be wrong....

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 08/16/98


On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Christoffer Lundberg wrote:

>Is this a valid thing to write? It sure doesn't work anyways.
>
>if (world[ch->in_room].people == 0) {
>
>I want to make sure that there are absolutely no other chars present
>in that room, and something will happen.

It should work (but I write this at 2am), although it is highly misleading.

'people' would actually be a NULL pointer and NULL just happens to be 0 (in
most simple form) so it would work.  However, you cannot do '== 1' which is
why I call it highly misleading.

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