On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Peter Ajamian wrote:
>George Greer wrote:
>
>> But what correlation of object descriptions to aliases? Is the first alias
>> the first word of the description? Do people put 'a' in the short
>> descriptions? Not much we can do without NLP.
>
>What do descriptions and aliases have to do with that? it's checking
>name, I thought that was different? Anyways, my objective here is just
>to correct an oversight in the macros the way they were, they won't work
>right for a lot of words that start with "y".
#define ANA(obj) (strchr("aeiouyAEIOUY", *(obj)->name) ? "An" : "A")
#define SANA(obj) (strchr("aeiouyAEIOUY", *(obj)->name) ? "an" : "a")
/////
struct obj_data {
[...]
char *name; /* Title of object :get etc. */
char *description; /* When in room */
char *short_description; /* when worn/carry/in cont. */
char *action_description; /* What to write when used */
[...]
};
/////
SANA is only used by act(), hence it would most likely be trying to 'a' /
'an' the object's short description, not the alias list. Most objects have
a short description of "an apple" anyway, instead of the code using $a/$A
for that.
--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
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