Handling Kind of Things

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

Here’s another wrinkle: look what happen with player's holdall:

with name 'backpack' 'player^s//p' 'holdalls//p'

For the holdall’s multiple-word self, you get two automatically-created kind-name plurals.

@Draconis

If this goes in an extension, I think it would be worth redefining the plural names to get around this issue: make them be “dirs”, “conts”, and “supps” or whatever, and then the plural-nuking code can remove them as usual.

The thing I said last year works, too.

Parser accepting "container" and "supporter"

I’ve been toying with the idea of explicitly making all kind plurals begin with a punctuation mark that I’ll also strip from user input (and putting anything I do want to be usable in commands back in an Understand statement).

But on balance this “overwrite plurals with a second copy of the first word” approach or “turn the plural into something the parser won’t accept” are so kludgey they make either of making everything privately-named or post-processing the I6 before compiling it look good in comparison.

perl -pi.bkp -e $'s{\'(directions|things|people|rooms|doors|containers|supporters|devices|vehicles|men|women|animals|backdrops|regions|player\\^s|holdalls)//p\';?}{}g' auto.inf