Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Martin C Sweitzer <msew+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Excerpts from mud-dev: 2-Jun-99 Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing by Cynbe ru
Taren#muq,org 
> useful for flattening the initial learning curve.  To the best of my
> knowledge.  ("bag.2" or "bag2" "bag 2" would probably be preferred to
> "2.bag" though, imho.)

I think the only reason for this is because you can easily increase the number.

ie

get 2.bag   vs get bag.2    

with the latter it is much easier to increment/decrement the bag number
(ie when looking or placing things into specific bags)  That is what you
care about when doing this usually.

up arrow
delete
increase number
return

vs

uparrow
right arrow * numLetterItem
increase number
return


msew 



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