Procedural help

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Nov 26 2011, 8:12 am
Hello,

I recently ran into an issue with using procedures to create universal rules. My question, simply stated, follows: Is it possible to set the original arguments equal to the result of the procedure? For example:
//Quick example
mob/proc
    Levelup(EXP,Level)
        if(EXP>100)
            usr<<"You gain a level."
            Level++
        .()
//Now that the calculations are done,  I want the original parameters to get the values of EXP and Level respectively
mob/verb
    IncreaseEXP()
        usr.MiningEXP+=100
        usr.Levelup(usr.MiningEXP,usr.Mining)


The result of IncreaseEXP() makes 'Level' equal to 2, since Level was equal to usr.Mining which was 1. Since I'm using this for many skills, how would I go about making usr.Mining and usr.MiningEXP, or the universal variables, equal to their corresponding procedural values? Thanks.
Nov 26 2011, 9:02 am
You could try using the vars list var. Given the name of your level variable ("Mining"), you can probably do something like this:
// given variable = "Mining" and src is the player

var level = vars[variable] // this grabs the value of the variable

vars[variable] ++ // this increases it