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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</A></LI>
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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 22:21:39 +0000 (PST8PDT)
From: cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray)
>[Greg:]
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>:[many arguments on how to clarify a prepositional statement]
>:
>:A thought I had...
>:
>:parse each statement into a default interpretation. if the players wish to
>:override that, they can use parentheses. For example:
>:
>:>put the book on the rug behind the pillar.
>:
>:Default parsing:
>:
>:put (the book) on (the rug behind the pillar).
>:
>:the player could, however, explicitly override that with:
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>:>put (the book on the rug) behind (the pillar)
>:
>:or whatever.
>
>Hmmm. Intriguing. Not really all that hard - if the paren's don't match
>up, you just complain and abandon the command. It's a bit unnatural, but
>that doesn't really bother me that much.
Well, in order to get away from requiring proper, natural language
usage on the players part, you'd have to substitute something... :)
You may even be able to build some intelligence into the paren parser
and have it try to match the paren's (maybe with a prompt to the player
asking if <blah> was what they really meant... but that gets back to nested
prompts... (shrug)). That and the parser could be built to not always need
some of the parens.. something like..
>put <object-specifier> <preposition> <object-specifier>
with the ability to nest an (<o-s> <p> <o-s>) as an <object-specifier>.
pretty simple, and not all that far fetched for a newbie to learn.
-Greg
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01009" HREF="msg01009.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00853" HREF="msg00853.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00889" HREF="msg00889.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 17:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00673" HREF="msg00673.html">Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>,
S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 01:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00733" HREF="msg00733.html">Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>,
S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Sun 25 May 1997, 01:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00771" HREF="msg00771.html">Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>,
S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Sun 25 May 1997, 15:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00631" HREF="msg00631.html">DB lock and MT models</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 00:30 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00626" HREF="msg00626.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 21:47 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 02:17 GMT
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