On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Gary Barnett wrote: > Last night I fired up my News Reader and read through the latest > discussions on the rec.games.mud.diku group. After reading a huge > thread on adding 'it' in object based commands; i.e. Whatabout 'him'/'her', and 'them'? For instance: > consider bob > kill him or: > get gauntlets > wear them I suppose, 'them' and 'it' could be the same, but I think people are more prone to using 'them' when refering to more than one object (eg., "gauntlets" is a pair of gauntlets, so 'it' doesn't sound right). So, if you just add a check for "them" along with the "it" then it'll turn out pretty well. It'd still allow: > get gauntlets > wear it Which sounds strange, and also put in further silliness such as: > get sword > wield them But what are the chances people are going to try those instead of the proper pronoun-thingy? Those aren't major concerns, IMO. -- Daniel Koepke dkoepke@california.com Forgive me father, for I am sin. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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