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21213: Re: [MUD-Dev] English grammar thoughts

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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:18:06 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> From: Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net>

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> I started to use a design almost exactly like this once -- verbs
> could have direct and indirect objects, and know what to do with
> them.  The verb could tell the parser what preposition(s) it
> expected to come before a direct or indirect object.  Ultimately,
> though, I had to give it up, because there were too many cases
> that it couldn't handle properly.  Consider, for example:

[Much more deletia]

In CGMud, I essentially used the method that Travis abandoned. For
information and examples on it, see:

  http://www.graysage.com/cg/MUD/CGMud/Server/ProgConcepts.txt

and scan down to the section heading "Parsing Functions".

--
Experience should guide us, not rule us.

Chris Gray     cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM
               http://www.GraySage.COM/cg/
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