I6: Executing orders routine for the PC

Authoring Inform 6
1

Is there any reason that the Inform 6 Library should execute the player’s orders routine if it exists? This came up when I fooling around with an NPC that looks like this:

Object -> George "George"
        with name 'George',
        short_name "George",
        description "It's George.",
        before [;
        Attack:
                ChangePlayer(George);
                "You feel oddly disoriented for a moment.";
        ],
        orders [;
        Take:
                <<take noun, actor>>;
        Drop:
                <<drop noun second, actor>>;
        ],
        has male proper animate transparent;

I can order George to pick up or drop things. If I hit George, I become George. Thereafter if I pick up something (as George), the interpreter will crash with a stack overflow error. I can fathom no reason why a character directly under the player’s control should have the orders routine run. I highly doubt that anyone would write an NPC that would attempt to give orders to the PC. Your thoughts?

2

See exercise 52 in DM4.

3

Ugh… Now that you pointed that out, it seems obvious.