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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Describe message order
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:02:47 GMT
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Neil Cerutti <cerutti@together.net> wrote:
>Jon Ingold posted:
>>I know this has come up before; but is there an easy way for me
>>to organise the order in which "describes" and "initials" are
>>processed? Ideally I want all my NPC's describes to be printed
>>after objects. They're all in a class, if that's any help.
>
>I believe 'describes' come before 'initial', but other than that
>the ordering is arbitrary. So there isn't an easy way. Although I
>believe that listings happen in the order of the object tree, but
>I don't think it's necessarily documented.

This sounds correct from what I recall of reading the listing
code in the library. Of course, depending on who you are, you
might find it relatively easy to go add some functionality to
sort the list of objects being listed according to a "list_order"
property or the like.

SeanB
