Some of you know how you may assign variables attatched to a type path. For example:
new /turf/wall{density = 0; name = "Fake Wall"}(loc)
I suggest more support be given to this area of the DM language. I've noticed a few places where it's lacking. Such as...
var/turf/wall/newWall = new{density = 0; name = "Fake Wall"}(loc)
// And
var/turf/wall/another = new newWall.type{density = 0; name = "Fake Wall"}(otherLoc)
Thoes are two examples of where support should be added. Another suggestion would be that type paths can be treated as an already initialized datum. For example...
var/turf/wall/path = /turf/wall
path.density = 0
path.name = "Fake Wall"
var/turf/wall/newWall = new path(loc)
(Of course, I'm not suggesting thier procedures be made avainable... unless 'shared' procedures are eventually implimented. That would be neat also.. /turf/wall.GetFakeWallPath())
There's my suggestion for that. I suspect that these special type paths (the current) are incomplete anyway, as they often bring up 'cross-reference' errors when I'm setting a variable to a constant, such as a string or number. (I don't have any examples prepared, as I've already made work-arrounds in my programs.)
You can do that?!?!
Man, where've I been! If you can do that, I think I've wasted a full 10 hours of my life outstreched having to turn it into a variable, changing the variables for new ones, etc, so I can edit it's stuff.
Heh, sorry.