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”]” is a special prefix which can be used before any command. It instructs the MUSH that it shouldn’t evaluate the arguments to the command (similar to the “/noeval” switch available on some commands). For example:

> say [add(1,1)]
You say, "2"

> say \[add(1,1)\]
You say, "[add(1,1)]"

> ]say [add(1,1)]
You say, "[add(1,1)]"

> ]"[add(1,1)]
You say, "[add(1,1)]"

This can be used to pass unevaluated MUSHcode to softcoded commands without having to escape every special character, or to help objects set attributes to contain unevaluated code.

See literal command examples for more examples.

::: seealso

• LIT()
• DECOMPOSE()
• ESCAPE()
• @command
• [}] :::

Literal command examples

Using ’]’ with $-commands:

> &test Tester=$test *: @pemit %#=I got: %0

Normal evaluation:

> test My name is %n.
I got: My name is Wiggles.

Preventing the user input from being evaluated:

> ]test My name is %n.
I got: My name is %n.

Preventing evaluation of code inside the $-command:

> &test Tester=$test *: ]@pemit %#=I got: %0
> test My name is %n.
I got: %0

In the last example, ‘%0’ would evaluate to ‘My name is Wiggles.’ (because the string entered by the user was evaluated), but the @pemit has been told not to evaluate its arguments.