LPC

The LPmud programming language

Edition pre-3.08

July 2001

• Copying Conditions
• Introduction
  • i - Acknowledgments
  • ii - Tutorial Setup
  • iii - History of LPC
  • iv - Gamedriver/Mudlib
  • v - Administrative Setup
  • vi - Writing code
• LPC basics
  • Basic programming concepts
    • What is programming?
    • Compiled/Interpreted code
    • Programs
    • Objects
    • Object makeup
  • Basic LPC
    • Comments
    • Data types
    • Variable declarations
    • Function declarations
    • Statements and Expressions
      • Statements
      • Expressions
      • The block statement
      • The ; statement
    • Scope and prototypes
    • Operator expressions
      • Miscellaneous operators
      • Arithmetic operators
      • Boolean operators
      • Conditional (logical) operators
      • Comparative operators
    • Prefix allocation
    • Conditionals
      • The if/else statement
      • The switch statement
      • The ?: expression
    • Precedence and Order of evalutaion
    • Loop statements
      • The for statement
      • The while statement
    • The break and continue statement
    • Arrays and Mappings
      • How to declare and use arrays
      • How to declare and use Mappings
  • The preprocessor
    • The #include statement
    • The #define statement
    • The #if, #ifdef, #ifndef, #else and #elseif statements
• Essential LPC and Mudlib
  • Peeking at things to come
  • LPC revisited
    • Function calls
      • Making object-internal function calls
      • Making single object-external function calls
      • Making multiple object-external function calls
    • Inheriting object classes
    • Masking functions in runtime, part 1
    • Type identification
    • Type qualifiers
      • The static variable qualifier
      • The static function qualifier
      • The private function/variable qualifier
      • The nomask function/variable qualifier
      • The public function/variable qualifier
      • The varargs function qualifier
    • The function data type, part 2
    • switch/case part 2
    • catch/throw: Error handling in runtime
    • Array & Mapping references
  • LPC/Mudlib interafce
    • Definition of standard and library objects
      • The base object class, /std/object.c
      • Standard object classes
      • Standard library objects
    • How to obtain object references
      • Object references relative to the current object
      • Creating objects
      • Finding references relative to another object
      • Object references to interactive objects
      • Destroying objects
    • Object-inherent command handling
    • Alarms: Asynchronous function execution
    • The inventory and the environment
    • String functions
    • Bit functions
    • Time functions
    • Array/string conversion
    • Array functions
    • Mapping functions
    • Type conversion
    • Math functions
    • File handling
    • Directory handling
    • Screen input/output
  • Some mud commands
    • Compile and load an object into gamedriver memory
    • Compile, load and clone an object to the game
    • Destroy a cloned object
    • Update a loaded object
  • The Tracer tool
    • Perform a command in the environment of a player
    • Call a function in an object
    • Cat the file associated with an object
    • Destroy all non-interactive objects in an object
    • Destruct a specific object
    • Print information about an object
    • Ed the file associated with an object
    • Enter the inventory of an object
    • Perform a command in another object
    • More the file associated with an object
    • Move an object to a destination
    • Set a tracer variable
    • Update, load, clone and replace an object
    • Tail the file associated with an object
• Advanced LPC and Mudlib
  • Function data type, part 3
    • The basics of the function type
    • Partial argument lists
    • Complex function applications
  • How to parse player commands
  • Masking functions in runtime, part 2
  • Writing efficient code
    • Efficient loops
    • Abusing defines
  • Traps and pitfalls
  • Mapping/Array security
  • Alarm loops
  • Internal documentation
• LPC Index
• Efun/Sfun Index
• Lfun/Macro Index
• Type Index
• Command Index

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