Re: Parser Problem

• Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:12:56 PDT
• From:
  Thomas Wouters <zonny@alibaba.dds.nl>
• cc: Tom Ritchford <tom@mvision.com>, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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• In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950830144120.24804A-100000@tripod.tripod.com>

On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Coolin MacKaarmick wrote:

> 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. 

Make it 'this any any' and check in argstr ,or use args[2], or use 
$string_utils:explode(argstr," "). This last thingy also very handy to 
make MUSH like command parsing (just explode(argstr,"=").

Greets,
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