Prepositions and Parsing...

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Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 15:22:18 +0000 (PST8PDT)
From: cg at ami-cg.graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray)

>[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..
>:
>:>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.

Let me know how it works out!  The idea just kinda came to me whilst 
sitting at work the other day and I haven't even got my project to the point
where I can even concieve of testing it out.  ;)

-Greg