Creating a Datum Given a Type

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May 6 2011, 7:50 am (Edited on May 6 2011, 8:06 am)
Why yes, I do ask a lot of questions.

At one point in the game, I store this information:

var/potato = /obj/food

Essentially what I stored was the class path for something. If I wanted to create an obj based off of the type path stored in potato, how would I do that? I tried

var/potato/n = new

But that gets me errors. Any help? Sorry if the question is worded strangely, comment if you need clarification.

edit: One way I've thought about doing it is saying

if(potato == /obj/food) var/obj/food/a = new

But that's not very modular. Usable, but annoying.
May 6 2011, 8:16 am
 
Kel
    proc
        respond(var/mob/kenan)
            kenan << "Kel loves orange soda..."


mob
    verb
        Who_Loves_Orange_Soda()
            var/some_type = /Kel
            var/V = new some_type()
            if (istype(V, /Kel))
                var/Kel/K = V
                K.respond(src)


100% untested, but that's what my memory says. Give it a whirl.
May 6 2011, 8:18 am
 
var/Food = "/obj/Potatoe"

mob/verb/Boopie()
    new Food(usr.loc)


Doing var/[whatever] defines a new var, you dont need to define your potato var again since you already defined it. So typically you would just create a new atom with "new /example/example" but since you defined the path in a var you can just replace it with the var.
May 6 2011, 8:55 am
In response to Turles
That worked, thank you!
May 6 2011, 8:57 am
In response to Stephen001
Works for making multiple instances pretty well. Thanks.
May 8 2011, 4:48 am
In response to Stephen001
kenan << "Kel loves orange soda..."

Is it true?