# Wish list

bartmoss@mistral.co.uk (bartmoss@mistral.co.uk)
Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:44:20 PDT

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    >On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Coolin MacKaarmick wrote:
    >
    >> Further wishlist stuff:
    >>
    >> @prop #100.newprop #99.oldprop
    >> throw ball at #100.someprop
    >> etc.
    >>
    >> ... i.e. some more subtle interpretation by parser.
    >>
    >This could probably be done in-DB fairly easily, by hacking
    >$string_utils:match_object or something similar.  I do think that we need
    >to give the server more support for in-DB matching though.  Maybe let it
    >call #0:do_match instead of the normal server matching if it exists.
    >This could return the location and name of the verb to call and maybe
    >what the dobj, dobjstr, iobj, iobjstr, and argstr should be.  Or at least
    >let you specify the objects and the order for the server parsing to look
    >for the verb on (for example having it use :contents() instead of
    >.contents or the player's .features list, that would not only speed it up a
    >little but also stop the need for making feature verbs +x)
    >Is something similar to this already on the wish list?
    >
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    It is an easy hack, I added ordinal/possessional parsing to a MOO I helping
    out on. What I did was add a new  :huh verb, lik slotting in a new chip board ;)
    Some would go with this, infact a few lines of code should do it.

    -Chris.