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From: mike@skaro.lawlib.wm.edu (Mike Phillips)
Subject: Re: adjective=noun problem
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:57:50 GMT
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In article <baf.823652846@max.tiac.net>, Carl Muckenhoupt wrote:
>John J Lee <jjl101@york.ac.uk> writes:
>
>>What can you do if the noun describing one object is also an adjective 
>>that is part of the name for another object?
>
>>eg. 'loo' and 'loo roll'
>
>>These things seem to crop up all over the place.  I'm using Inform.
>
>Didn't someone recently announce something that solved this?  "Adnouns", 
>I think it was called.  Look in the inform programming portion of the 
>Archive.

adname.h is the library, and it preforms admirably.  The library was written
by Andrew Clover (who seems to have written a lot of libraries for 
Inform :-) )

    Mike Phillips, mike@lawlib.wm.edu
    Check out an Adaptive Hints system for Inform:
        ftp://skaro.lawlib.wm.edu/pub/users/mike/inform-stuff/adhints/



