October 6, 2021, 17:48
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pval
This may be a stupid question, but what does the 'p' in pval actually stand for? Does it stand for anything?
(I have my own guess, but it's just a guess and I'd like to avoid biasing replies.) |
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October 6, 2021, 19:02
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October 7, 2021, 02:33
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In Moria/UMoria and very early Angband, pval was called p1; and object description code included the additional parameters p2 through p6, although only p1 was an actual variable name. P2 through P4 were explicitly glossed as plusses (they were stand-ins for +to-hit, +to-dam and +to-ac), but it's still unclear to me whether P in these parameters actually stood for plus or for parameter. I believe Ben was responsible for changing the variable's name from p1 to pval.
I believe that at some point I did gloss pval as plus value; but whether I knew something about the name's origins then that I've forgotten since or if I just made an editorial decision based on pvals being used as plus values in the present day, I do not know. Modern Vanilla code calls pval an "item extra-parameter" in the comments, but that is also a latter-day development. The current Frog glossary simply describes the purpose of a pval without implying that the word stands for anything specific.
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October 7, 2021, 02:48
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I was hoping for "potato".
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October 13, 2021, 10:54
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I had the same thought.
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October 14, 2021, 20:21
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Brb, gotta rename a few variables to potatoVal...
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October 15, 2021, 07:36
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