[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Caliban Tiresias Darklock]

On 09:15 PM 6/2/99 -0700, I personally witnessed Ben Greear jumping up to say:
>Chris Gray wrote:
>
>When you start depending too heavily
>on correctly built worlds/objects, you are liable to get into situations
>where an innocent mistake in building makes it almost impossible to interact
>with an entity.

I recall once seeing "An evil-looking metal talon" lying around on a MUD
after defeating some monster or other. So I tried "get evil". Nope... "get
metal". Nope... "get talon". Nope... ahh, screw it. "get all": "You pick up
the demon claw". Sure enough, "drop demon" dropped it; "get claw" picked it
up. 

And you thought "find the verb" was bad? Try "find the noun" sometime. ;)

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