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Oh, right.  I did do that, didn't I...I guess I wasn't paying attention.

It should work.  One would have to make some modifications (specifically, get
rid of the verbs), but the entry points should all be reasonably clear.  I
hope.

Andrew Merenbach wrote:

> I just did my yearly re-downloading of the complete contents of the
> "contributions" folder for Inform libs on ftp.gmd.de, and found a library
> file titled "nameable.h"--description:
>
> An extension to allow objects to be named by the
>                      player. Written by John Colagioia, based on code from
>                      Graham Nelson's game "Balances".
>
> --
> Andrew M.

