My .02 and sorry for dragging this issue out more..
Any company that produces a product, makes that product
for the consumer. As it stands now, if CircleMUD produces
an annoyance to the players, the coder will change his code
to please the players. (Even if it is non-standard) How many
times have all coders (including George) made a work-around
to get things working?
Being both coder and player. If I start on a new mud and see
multiple lines where they should not be, I would think the
coder doesn't know what he is doing. My client currently works
on 99.9% of the muds, and I would think it was the mud that is
messed up vice my client.
The option for an #if seems to be the best solution until
the clients conform to standards. Having the old and new code
in so the coders do not have to hunt down an older version to
satisfy thier customers.
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