On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, JOACHIM PILEBORG wrote: > It has been a long dscussion here on combining several object into one line here, and > I guess it will keep going for a while. What has been brought up if different kind of > parses wich translates "xxx is lying here." into "Several xxxs are lying here.". > What I have seen, those parses just works for those simple cases, and would not work > for an object with for example this l-desc. > "The Devils cloak is lying here, you better leave it there." > That line must be translated to > "Two Devils cloaks are lying here, you better leave them there." > It is a lot harder, and we have some object with even worse l-desc, even though I can't > remember what right now. > > What I wanted to say, is that it is not as easy as some people thinks. > I have plural on my mud too, but it is the easy kind, "[2] A sword is lying here." type. > I'm almost finished writing the code to do just that, and do it right. I need to finish one more part of it, and I'll post a preliminary version and gather comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc. Look for it later tonight. _/\_ GU -d H s : g? p5 au- a17 w v- C UL P L 3- E---- N K- W--- M-- V-- po / L \ Y t 5 j-- R G---- tv-- b D B--- e u*(**) h! f !r !n !y+ \_ C_/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= \/ HLT! OUT POLICE! MOV HEAD+1,HANDS. MOV SI,[MIRANDA]. REP OUTSB He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
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