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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Nice simple straightforward question
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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:49:30 GMT
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Neil Cerutti <cerutti@together.net> wrote:
>I might use an after routine in the room.
>This silently moves successfully dropped items to the floor.

Good point to avoid intefering with before-s, but you probably want to
put it on the chair, not the room, in case there's some other enterable
there:

Object chair "char"
 with
  react_after [;
    Drop:
      move noun to parent(self);
  ]
 has enterable supporter;

Does the action "EMPTY CONTAINER" call "DROP" in a loop,
or do you have to also handle that case explicitly?

SeanB
