Compatibility

SharpMUSH does away with some of the more unique aspects of PennMUSH parser curiosities.

Unbalanced Parenthesis

In PennMUSH, the following is legal, while is not in SharpMUSH:

think add(1,2
> 3

Instead, complete the parenthesis.

think add(1,2)
> 3

Forgiving Parenthesis

In PennMUSH, the following is legal, while is not in SharpMUSH:

lsearch(all,eval,\[strmatch(##,%#)\])
> #1

Instead, escape all the contents. This is also needed for #lambda evaluation.

lsearch(all,eval,\[strmatch\(##\,%#\)\])
> #1

Full Recursion Parsing

In PennMUSH, TinyMUX, etc, you can do the following:

&fn me=ucstr; think [v(fn)](foo)
> FOO

Instead, use callfn() to call the intended function.

&fn me=ucstr; think callfn(v(fn),foo)
> FOO

This is an awesome feature of MUSH-likes, but we explicitly do not support this, as it makes the parser non-deterministic, ambiguous and harder to maintain. Most existing Softcode does not rely on this behavior however.