First person viewpoint with second person commands?

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Hello all,

I have managed a solution, inspired by the one proposed by @Zed in Recognize third person pronouns as the player - #7 by Zed plus the necessary addition to edit the LanguageDescriptorstable, which —to avoid rewriting the whole thing— I achieved leveraging the fact that Inform7 language kits (at least in the version of I7 that I’m using) have a currently-unused LanguageInitialiseI6 function.

As recommended by @jwalrus I’ve also added some handling for the case when the player uses my instead of your.

For the curious, this is the code I’m currently using:

Include (- Constant ME1__WD        = 'you'; -)      replacing "ME1__WD".
Include (- Constant ME2__WD        = 'yourself'; -) replacing "ME2__WD".
Include (-
Constant YourPossessive = 'your';
[ LanguageInitialise ;
    LanguageDescriptors-->1 = YourPossessive;
]
-) replacing "LanguageInitialise".

Before printing a parser error (this is the wrong possessive rule):
	if the player's command includes "me/my/myself":
		if the player's command matches the regular expression "\bmy (.*)$":
			let M be "YOUR [the text matching subexpression 1]";
			say "What makes you think I could find [M] here?" instead;
		otherwise:
			say "You are not here if not through me, why are you referring to yourself?" instead.
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