Whoops. Sent a blank message. Guess that's what happens when I
miss my coffee in the morning! ;)
Funny how close the cancel and send commands are for some
programs. You'd think people would have put them further away....
Anyway, not that _my_ personal method is any better or worse, in
fact, I can prove it's a bit slower. But you know the old saying about
slow and steady...
I just have my extract_char function move them into a 'to be
extracted' list. Membership in the extracted list is as clear a sign as a
flag, and it's easy to check for by comparing pointer values. No actual
referencing of the character data which may or may not have been
invalidated (especially if you have a few people adding new things to your
code daily).
I use this to perform my mob activity - for example; I generate a
list of all mobs and simply pop the top of the list each time. If there's
an extraction, they're simply removed from the list. Either way, we never
reference a 'next' variable, etc.
see
http://post.queensu.ca/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind9909&L=circle&P=R3268
http://post.queensu.ca/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind9909&L=circle&P=R3653
....
somewhere I actually posted the patch I made too... extract.patch? i'm not
sure now..
PjD
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