Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Greg Miller <gmiller#classic-games,com>]

"Travis S. Casey" wrote:
> The only thing I probably wouldn't do is the Diku style of allowing
> shortest unambiguous matches -- I don't like it, since the shortest
> unambiguous match can change over time.

Actually, the Dikus I've played have generally gone a step farther, and
accepted the first match, ambiguous or not. "k fido" would (usually) be
"kill fido" rather than "kiss fido", for example.

In any event, the main use for such a parser is to allow people to get
by when you're too lazy to add nicks and aliases to your parser.

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