Re: Legend's lessons for IF
31 Mar 1995 00:29:08 GMT
baf@max.tiac.net (Carl Muckenhoupt) wrote:
>dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
>
>Squirt was the better puzzle, though. The mouse was flawed by the
>"guess-the-syntax" aspect of the puzzle, not to mention the inconsistency
>with Infocom command interpretation. (That is, you couldn't give the mouse
>multiple commands on a line; "mouse, w. e" would parse as "mouse, w."
>followed by "e", which is inconsistent with Enchanter, where you have to
>give multiple commands to the turtle in yet another similar puzzle. I
>wouldn't mind this so much if Inform didn't make such a big deal about its
>Infocom compatibility. But I digress.)
I may be way off here, but why do you mention inform? Doesn't Legend
use TADS?
In inform, you can type:
mouse, go west then go east.
which gets interpreted as two commands to the mouse. Unless the scope
is changed, though, the mouse is gone by the second - i.e. it's equvalent to:
> mouse, go west
The mouse leaves west
>mouse, go east
I can't see the mouse here.
Well, you get the idea.
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Stephen