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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Greg:]
: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..
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:>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.
Oh yes, anything I did would make the parens optional. The vast majority
of commands don't need them - I look on them as an interesting and easy
(hopefully!) way to handle the few ambiguous situations that do come up.
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01013" HREF="msg01013.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Sun 01 Jun 1997, 20:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01054" HREF="msg01054.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#mare,zesoi.fer.hr">silovic#mare,zesoi.fer.hr</a>, Mon 02 Jun 1997, 16:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00805" HREF="msg00805.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Mon 26 May 1997, 11:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00867" HREF="msg00867.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 05:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00744" HREF="msg00744.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 25 May 1997, 05:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00808" HREF="msg00808.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 26 May 1997, 21:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00730" HREF="msg00730.html">Dupes.</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sat 24 May 1997, 12:41 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00724" HREF="msg00724.html">Q's</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Sat 24 May 1997, 06:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00752" HREF="msg00752.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Q's</A></strong>,
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