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From: CardinalT <cardinalt@helpmejebus.com>
Subject: Re: Making a parser - what are the minimal requirements?
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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:15:45 -0800
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Kodrik wrote:

> This works incredible well and the parser understands people writing plain
> english:
> "put the pot that I found in the blue room on the stove that is in front
> of me"

It would still break down, though, in a case, say, where the player finds a
pot in the blue room and another in the red room, right? For example, if
you distinguished them in the code by naming them "blue room pot" and "red
room pot," the parser would no longer understand the above input correctly.
Or am I wrong about that?

In many ways I like the idea of the parser simply ignoring words it
considers extraneous. But it seems like that method has the potential for
confusing the player as well (if what I've said here is true).

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--CardinalT
  Archbishop of Frith and Funeral Barker to the Stars
