Re: Referring to player ("me") in Inform


05 Nov 1995 17:52:48 GMT

Christopher E. Forman <ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I've had a nasty little bit of a time trying to get the command
> "ASK <character> ABOUT ME" to work.

When Inform parses an object, pronouns are treated specially, so "me"
always refers to the player. So one solution is to put the player
object into scope along wit the topic objects.

What this suggests to me is that object parsing isn't quite the right
thing for conversation topics.

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Gareth Rees