How difficult might it be to get the parser to recognize the use of a noun’s plural attribute as if “all” had been used? Ideally, both ‘drop coins’ and ‘drop all my coins’ would work as well as ‘drop all coin’.
Would something like this require a hack of the Parser__parse method? Or does Inform 6 support a more modular approach? For the former, I would imagine I might have to set multiflag = true; upon detecting matching plurals, and then somehow jump back to .TryAgain.
>get coin
Taken.
>get coin
(the gold coin)
Taken.
>i
You are carrying:
two gold coins
>drop coins
You can't see any such thing.
>drop all my coins
You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
>showverb drop
Verb 'discard' 'drop' 'throw'
* multiheld -> Drop
* multiexcept 'in' / 'into' / 'down' noun -> Insert
* multiexcept 'on' / 'onto' noun -> PutOn
* held 'at' / 'against' / 'on' / 'onto' noun -> ThrowAt
>drop all my coin
gold coin: Dropped.
gold coin: Dropped.
>frown
That's not a verb I recognise.
To be clear, I’m not too well-versed on the differences between the 040227 version of the Inform 6 Library, and the DavidGriffith/inform6lib/ version 180520. So if the later version supports such a thing, I’d be interested in learning either way.