[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Travis S. Casey]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Katrina McClelan wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Cynbe ru Taren wrote:

> > 1 | get the sword from the second bag
> > 2 | get sword 2.bag
> > 3 | ge sw 2.bag
> 
> > useful for flattening the initial learning curve.  To the best of my
> > knowledge.  ("bag.2" or "bag2" "bag 2" would probably be preferred to
> > "2.bag" though, imho.)
> 
> I've seen too many diku derivative muds use the 2.bag notation... it's
> expected by most mud veterans, and thus something they generally try.  Not
> that it would hurt to support all of the above.

I've never seen it supported on LPs or Tiny-derivatives.  It's something
that most *Diku* (and Diku-derivative) veterans might try, but I'm not
sure about "most mud veterans."

(Heck, most mud veterans *I* know try looking at the help to see what sort
of commands are supported first, so they'd be able to deal with any
reasonable command structure.)

I do agree, though, that it would be a good idea for a mud to support that
syntax as well as the LP-style "sword 2" and the English "second sword"
and "2nd sword".

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