#include "defs.h"
inherit ROOM_OBJ;
void setup() {
set_short( "'add_item' room telling about simple items with many names" );
set_light( 100 );
set_long( "This is the room telling about making simple items with many "
"names. To help as examples it's been filled with several items "
"including a small note, candles and some chairs. Look at the "
"note to learn more. Go east to learn about adding verbs to the "
"items, and west to go to a simpler example.\n" );
add_item( "small note",
"Ok things get more complicated here.\n"
"First of all, the mudlib adds the plural forms of an "
"item you add to a room. Thus, \n"
" add_item( \"candle\", \"Very nice.\" );\n"
"will take care of both \"look at candle\" and \"look at "
"candles\".\n"
"Secondly, the code:\n"
" add_item( \"small note\", \"Ok things ... \n"
"will take care of both \"look at note\" and \"look at small "
"note\"\n"
"And finally, the code:\n"
" add_item( ({ \"corridor\", \"long hallway\" }), "
"\"It is long.\" );\n"
"will take care of \"look at corridor\", \"look at hallway\", "
"\"look at long hallway\" and even \"look at long hallways\".\n"
"If you look at the hallways you'll see the message you get is "
"not very good as it refers to a single hallway. To make a "
"different description when you look at a single "
"item and all of them, you can use the optional third parameter "
"to tell the mudlib it shouldn't try to add the plural form. "
"Thus:\n"
" add_item( \"chair\", \"This chair looks about ready to fall "
"over.\", 1 );\n"
" add_item( \"chairs\", \"The chairs look ready to fall "
"over.\", 1 );\n"
"Oh, one last thing when listing things in this manner as a rule "
"of thumb, put the best description first.\n" );
add_item( "candle", "Very nice." );
/* Warning, look at the note to see why this is not a good example */
add_item( ({ "corridor", "long hallway" }), "It is long." );
add_item( "chair", "This chair looks about ready to fall over", 1 );
add_item( "chairs", "The chairs look ready to fall over", 1 );
add_item( "item", "You don't see any since noone coded one yet!" );
add_item( "reference", "Like one that you would find in a theusaures." );
add_item( "room", "It is a big room." );
add_exit( "east", __DIR__+"verbs", "path");
add_exit( "west", __DIR__+"intro", "path");
add_exit( "start", MAIN, "path" );
add_exit( "exit", LEARNING +"search", "path" );
} /* setup() */
