a hill of beans

Okay I am planning on contributing patches for NetHack.
Eventually.
One of the ideas was to implement the tin of beans which was discussed
waaay back in February of 2004 where there would be jumping beans which
would vegetarianly/veganly confer TC or teleportitis. Also I'd include
magic beans, while not creating a beanstalk, which would act as a potion of
gain energy. There would be tins of regular beans (pinto, kidney, lima,
etc).
Would this require creating a different class of object such as a tin of
beans or could the existing code be used to create tins of beans of varying
varieties?
Right now I figure this may be the toughest one to tackle unlike changing
the material for skeleton keys from metal to bone.

Haakon Studebaker wrote:
> Okay I am planning on contributing patches for NetHack.
> Eventually.
> One of the ideas was to implement the tin of beans which was discussed
> waaay back in February of 2004 where there would be jumping beans which
> would vegetarianly/veganly confer TC or teleportitis. Also I'd include
> magic beans, while not creating a beanstalk, which would act as a potion of
> gain energy. There would be tins of regular beans (pinto, kidney, lima,
> etc).
> Would this require creating a different class of object such as a tin of
> beans or could the existing code be used to create tins of beans of varying
> varieties?

Just add another possible value for tin->spe (besides -1 homemade, 0
meat, 1 spinach) to create a "tin of beans" and replicate the code that
creates "soup", "french fried", "dried" etc. tins to determine the
species of beans upon eating.

Lars