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Re: CF: pray/claw/magic xp
> From: smead@flute.aix.calpoly.edu writes:
>
> Also, lookup_skill_by_name wasn't properly returning -1 when a skill name
> wasn't found. Enclosed is a patch for this as well. Alternatively,
> you could change [snip]
>
> This does, however, make change_skill silently fail when you try to use
> a non-existent skill.
Hmm. 'fail' == a crash for me. I would much rather have the code
say something stupid like 'you have no knowledge of clawing' when
you request a non-existent skill.
> But it looks it would relatively ugly to have it generate a sensible error
> message.
>
I will work on trying to fix this tonight. Ill post patches to
the mailing list (and make a complete tarfile).
-b.t