i think i might want to make this into a isnamelist() function. after tracing variables through some nightmarish abstraction *grin* i found some interesting quirks. i'm trying to get consistant behaviour with isname, but unfortunately not all commands use this uniformily. do_examine and do_look upon items will call isname in the fashion i had divised, but do_look upon players or mobiles won't. do_look upon board messages require that i call it with a "N.message" arg. so until i can unravel some of the abstraction behind generic_find to get consistant behaviour with isname, i'll just have selected functions call isnamelist() and then slowly work out where isname is called... =) d. -- Dump: A Perl statement that is one of the many ways to get Perl program to produce a core file. Most of the other ones are undocumented. - programming perl
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