Re: Occupant Combat, Redux

[Eric McDonald <emcdonal at cps dot cmich dot edu>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jim Kingdon wrote:

> On the whole, the Language Syntax section of the xconq manual
> (refman.texi) tells you everything you need to know about lisp.
> Unfortunately, it throws in a bit of lisp terminology here and there
> and could use more examples (both things would be nice to fix, given
> the number of people who know lisp isn't so great these days).  But

Hi Jim,

  What sort of modifications to this section did you have in mind? I'll
make them, if you want. I took a quick read through it a little while ago,
and could only think of these potential modifications:

  * Mention the current range of Xconq numbers (that it uses shorts and is
thus capped at 32767). This can be inferred from looking at the paragraph
on dice specs, but could be made explicit.
  * Put emphasis on the sentence that tells what the default values are
assumed to be when they are not explicitly stated in the documentation.
  * Give an example of an atom versus a list containing an atom versus a
list containing multiple atoms.

  Are there others?

  Thanks,
    Eric