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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: MaxTADS & addword/delword
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Neil K. Guy (nkg@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:
> Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@netcom.com) wrote:

> : I think it's time for me to ask, "what *is* the delword() bug, specifically?"

>  A word added to the games vocabulary using addword() remains in the 
> vocabulary after an undo command. The undo command is supposed to undo 
> *everything*, including words added using addword().

Oh, happy bouncy joy. (Do you mean "addword" or "delword"?)

I can't see anything obviously unreliable in the source code. But in no 
sense am I claiming to understand what's going on. (A little suggestion, 
boys and girls. If you ever want to design an undo system for a virtual 
machine, the Z-machine's is a *hell* of a lot easier to write and 
maintain than TADS's.)

--Z


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