0000813: query_ip_number(&ob) returns &ob

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000813	LDMud	Efuns	public	2012-11-26 21:10	2016-01-26 19:05

Reporter	Gnomi	Assigned To	Gnomi
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	no change required
Platform	i686	OS	Debian GNU/LInux	OS Version	5.0

Summary	0000813: query_ip_number(&ob) returns &ob
Description	If query_ip_number is given a reference to a variable, query_ip_number returns that reference instead of a string (as stated in the documentation). I like the documented way better, because returning a reference can be very dangerous (a function might return the result of query_ip_number directly and so return a reference to a local variable, even an experienced admin occasionally crashes a MUD in such a way...) Btw, I find it annoying that query_ip_number returns bytes > 127 as negative integers.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-11-26 21:10	Gnomi	New Issue
2012-11-26 22:30	Gnomi	Relationship added	related to 0000596
2012-11-26 22:31	Gnomi	Note Added: 0002154
2015-05-01 21:04	Gnomi	Assigned To	=> Gnomi
2015-05-01 21:04	Gnomi	Status	new => assigned
2016-01-26 19:05	Gnomi	Note Added: 0002276
2016-01-26 19:05	Gnomi	Status	assigned => resolved
2016-01-26 19:05	Gnomi	Resolution	open => no change required

Gnomi 2012-11-26 22:31 manager ~0002154	query_ip_number might be obsoleted by 0000596. So it might not be worth to implement this suggestion and remove this efun instead.

Gnomi 2016-01-26 19:05 manager ~0002276	The efun mysteriously vanished.