• Editing text files from the BYOND Members File Space Management page - Being able to edit text files such as .html and .txt files from the members file management page would be great. You wouldn't have to delete/re-upload a new file every time you want to change something small in said text files.
• Optional Separator Arguments for <code>params2list()</code> and <code>list2params()</code> - An optional delimiter argument would allow developers to use params2list() and list2params() for all of their explode() and implode() needs.
  

  Example:

  proc/explode( text, sep )
  >   var/l[0]
  >   var/pos = findtext( text, sep )
  >   while( pos )
  >       l += copytext( text, 1, pos )
  >       text = copytext( text, pos+1 )
  >       pos = findtext( text, sep )
  >   l += text
  >   return l
  >   
  > proc/implode( l[], sep )
  >   for( var/x = 1 to l.len )
  >       . += ( l[x] + (x < l.len ? sep :null) )
  >       
  > mob/verb/test()
  >   
  >   // Instead of this:
  >   for( var/x in explode( "HI_THERE_NOOB_FACE", "_" ) )
  >       src << x
  >   
  >   // We could do this:
  >   for( var/x in params2list( "HI_THERE_FREAK", "_" ) )
  >       src << x
  >   
  >   // And instead of this:
  >   var/m = implode( list("1", "2", "3", "4", "5"), "_" )
  >   
  >   // We could do this:
  >   var/m = list2params( list( "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" ), "_" )
  >   
  >   // And since params2list() and list2params() are built in, 
  >   // the process would be significantly faster this way.
  

• <code>isvar( varname, path )</code> - A proc which would allow us to tell whether a certain variable belongs to a certain datum type would be great. This would allow a developer who wants to write a small, customizable scripting language inside DM to do more thorough error checks.
  

  Example Scenario:
  - DS is parsing a script
  - The parsing proc recognizes a variable reference of a certain datum type.
  - The parsing proc wants to check whether said datum actually has said var. ( isvar( "powerlevel", /mob/monster ) )
  - If said datum doesn't have said var:
  -- Stop parsing script, return error.
  - Otherwise continue parsing script.
  
  And apart from the stated scenario, it could be put to many other intuitive uses.

• Joining multiple dreamseeker instances at once - The way BYOND let you join games before was exactly like this. What happened? Why can't we open other instances of dreamseeker while joining another instance any more?

proc/Split(var/text2split,var/SplitBy=",")
    var/CurPos=1
    var/list/SplitList=list()
    while(findtext(text2split,SplitBy,CurPos,0))
        var/NextPos=findtext(text2split,SplitBy,CurPos,0)
        SplitList+=copytext(text2split,CurPos,NextPos)
        CurPos=NextPos+1
    if(CurPos<=length(text2split))  SplitList+=copytext(text2split,CurPos,0)
    return SplitList

Since we do have a hascall() proc, something like hasvar() would seem to make a lot of sense and is probably not too hard to do.

It's still perfectly possible to do that; but since there is only one splash screen, you kind of have to live with the fact that the pager will get a little confused between the two DS instances. That was a design decision that was made when the splash screen was first put in, and while it's something we can (and most likely will) change at some point, it's a low-priority issue.

I don't understand why you wrote that ( sorry, but ) very messy snippet. Did you not see the explode() and implode() proc I posted in my initial post, or do you think it's a bad algorithm?

Also, wtf is with <code>SplitList+=copytext(text2split,CurPos,0) > </code>?

Yes, but you're calling it after if( curPos <= length( text ))! Preposterous!

Based on what hascall() does, it would be easy enough to just do if(Variable in source.vars). If you're going to make a proc that can actually read from a path, could the same be applied to hascall()?

proc/isProc( proc, path )
    if( path )
        return text2path( "[path]/proc/[proc]" )
    else
        return text2path( "/proc/[proc]" )
    
mob/verb/test()
    src << isProc( "isProc" )