Static Procs or Variables?

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Nov 1 2006, 9:55 pm
This is probably going to sound stupid, but is there any way to create static procs or variables in BYOND?

Basically, I want a global list to store the name of each type of tool object. I figure it would be easiest to do by having each tool object register itself with said list, but I don't want it to have to search the whole list to see if it's already been added. Figured it would be easiest done with static stuff.
Nov 1 2006, 10:13 pm
You can have global procs or variables, but that's about it - no statics, I'm afraid.

You could generate that list using the typesof() proc, by the way.

var/list/toollist

proc/MakeToolList()
    var/list/ret=list()
    var/obj/tool/t
    for(var/k in typesof(/obj/tool))
        t=new k
        ret+=t.name
    toollist=ret.Copy()


Tada!
Nov 2 2006, 2:46 am
In response to Jp
Jp wrote:
You can have global procs or variables, but that's about it - no statics, I'm afraid.

You could generate that list using the typesof() proc, by the way.

> var/list/toollist
> 
> proc/MakeToolList()
>     var/list/ret=list()
>     var/obj/tool/t
>     for(var/k in typesof(/obj/tool))
>         t=new k
>         ret+=t.name
>     toollist=ret.Copy()
>

Tada!

var/static/static_variable


btw, static is like global.