Re: Parser Problem

• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:45:08 PDT
• From:
  Coolin MacKaarmick <colin@tripod.tripod.com>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Tom Ritchford wrote:

[snip]
 
> Once you've set the preposition to be none, there can be no
> iobjstr and iobj.  So @junk is really @junk this none none.
> 
> In the second example, it tries to match the string "me nothing" against an
> object and fails.  Thus, the dobj is $nothing... but the dobj has to be
> "this" in order for the verb to match.  So no match and the error above.

As I suspected.  The crux of my question is whether there is a workaround
or if there is an inherent proscription on constructs such as "@pay bob
$10."  I doubt it (a workaround), but maybe someone's been very, very
clever. 

Ideas?

Colin

> 
> I'd recommend religious study of the "Command Parsing" section of the
> Programmer's Manual.
> 
>     /t
> 
> Tom Ritchford     tom@mvision.com   (212) 306-0414 
> Market Vision, 40 Rector Street, NY, NY 10006
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> 
>     /t
> 
> Tom Ritchford     tom@mvision.com   (212) 306-0414 
> Market Vision, 40 Rector Street, NY, NY 10006
> 
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> 

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