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+OBSOLETE
+CONCEPT
+	initialisation
+
+DESCRIPTION
+	There are two different flavours of initialisations,
+	selectable in config.h at driver compile time:
+
+	i)  #undef INITIALIZATION_BY___INIT
+	------------------------------------
+
+	Initialisation is done at compile time. This is fast and costs
+	no extra code in the program.  Allowed expressions currently
+	include integer literals, string literals, integer operators,
+	string addition, bracketing, array constructors, the empty
+	mapping and order_alist() .
+	When an object with initialised variables is cloned or
+	inherited, all initialised variables are copied from the
+	blueprint.  A special application of this feature is to have
+	an initialised non-empty array or a mapping; it will be shared
+	by all clones or inheriting objects unless an assignment to
+	the variable - as opposed to an assignment to an element of
+	the array/mapping - is done in all clones etc.  To prevent
+	unauthorised chenges in initialised arrays/mappings, you can
+	declare the variables as ``private static'' or use a nomask
+	reset/create that checks for undesired inheritance.
+
+	ii) #define INITIALIZATION_BY___INIT
+	-------------------------------------
+
+	Creates a function named __INIT() for all variable
+	initialisations and for calls to __INIT() in all inherited
+	objects, and runs this function at object creation time.
+	Any efun can be used in the expressions for variable
+	initialisations, even ones with severe side effects, like
+	destruct() or shutdown() . The code created for __INIT() is a
+	little worse than a medium-skilled lpc-programmer would
+	generate, because it is scattered all over the program.
+	It is possible (though discouraged) to overload __INIT() with
+	selfwritten functions.
+
+HISTORY
+  Since LDMud 3.3, order_alist() is no longer accepted without
+    INITIALIZATION_BY___INIT.
+  LDMud 3.3.378 replaced this static choice of initialisation
+    methods by compile-time pragmas.
+
+29.10.2006 Zesstra