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Apoptosis in Dawinbots?

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LazyBot:
Apoptosis is when a cell in a multi-cellular organism commit suicide for the benefit of the organism.
I was wondering if this is possible in Darwinbots(without making it do something like reproduce a thousand times in a second and crashing the program).
This can be useful for preventing cancers or for stabilizing a muti-celled bot in a mutation causing environment.
(Also, does anyone know how the C++ version is coming?)

Numsgil:
There is no direct suicide command.  However, you could achieve this if you added a line like:

-2 .shoot store
*nrg .shootval store

To your organism.  This would have it fire all of its nrg (or most anyway) in the form of a shot.

LazyBot:
Ah.  Thanks.

Jez:
Also you could use the delgene instruction to delete it's own genes. This wouldn't be to the advantage of others though.

kage:
Lol. I wouldn't exactly reccomend that one personally. *shudders*

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