# Verb Confusion

Tom Ritchford (tom@mvision.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 14:07:01 PDT

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    >From: Sandra Batista <batista@husc.harvard.edu>
    >
    >What is the difference between a verb such as "say hello" and a verb such
    >as "@move #101 to #102"? What is the difference between how these
    >commands are parsed? How is  the "@" before the verb parsed?
    >On which objects are verbs preceded by "@" in a command line defined?

    Well, this is just a convention.  There's nothing absolute in the
    language about this.

    The verbs without @ are the verbs that implement the virtual reality.
    These are verbs like look, give, drop, take, and movement "verbs"
    like east, west n

    The @verbs are informational verbs like @who, @display, @dig and such
    that are rather like meta-verbs.  They are verbs that display or
    change information about the MOO itself.

    This isn't very clear but that's the best I've been able to
    figure out.

        /t

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