We don't need whatever minor performance gains this might collect,
and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
languages easier.
+
* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these
are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its
state machine.
compromise forward-portability to other languages.
* The code still has an unfortunately high density of magic numbers - in
- particular, numeric object and room IDs. There are plans to fix this.
+ particular, numeric object IDs. There are plans to fix this.
* Much of the code still uses FORTRAN-style uppercase names.