[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: command parsers: a modest proposa

[Ross Nicoll <rnicoll#calmar-mud,com>]

>>>What are the choices here:
>>>   - drop all of them
>>>   - complain about ambiguity
>>>   - drop some "random" rock
>>>   - allow the user to choose
>>  Of these, the second and fourth get in the way of the game.
>>The real choice is between the first and the third. I chose the
>>first because it fell naturally from the way I was processing
>>adjectives and so on as operators applied to sets of candidate
>>objects. Once players got used to it, switching to another version
>>was not an attractive option.
>I would disagree with that - As a player, I'd rather have the game
>abort a command than perform an unwanted command.  I'd rather it
>do nothing than do the wrong thing.  For me the dividing line
>between choosing method 2 or 4, then, would depend on how cleanly
>#4 could be implemented.
I'm a bit of a 2 and 3 fan. 2 is good, unless you have two identically
named objects. 3 is my way of doing things, it drops the first thing
in your inventory that matches.

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