Package driver :: Module event
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Module driver.event

Holds the Event superclass and a few subclasses that are used in the driver. These classes are what makes everything go since this is an event driven mud.

The philosophy of events are that they allow us to run code that could potentially die without having it kill the whole mud. It gives us a cheap way of serializing tasks and (when used correctly) breaking down those big tasks into smaller chunks so that it appears that the mud runs with no lag.

It should be noted that events are not protected against infinite loops (yet).
Classes
Event The event superclass.
HookEvent When information needs to be passed to registered functions of a hook, this allows us to defer execution of that spam event into its own event horizon.
InputEvent The InputEvent handles all incoming user input.
KickEvent This is a KickEvent for the repo thread which just makes sure everything is running squarely and such.

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