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Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
>
> These are only for *robots*. Unless you are dealing with robots this
> way, *don't do it*. Real people DO NOT behave this way. Telling them to
> "go to the bedroom" is what you really do with humans. If these are
> people here, you should code them to do the moving/doing automatically.
> Real people WILL NOT respond to "mom, go north"!

Real people also don't think about moving in the four cardinal
directions
thesmelves, but we have it anyway in IF.  It's not ideal, sure, but why
be inconsistent?
