Name conflicts and how to solve them?

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

One thing is that, from things said in this thread, “my” may have some special built-in handling that is hard to override:

@zarf

This is what I meant when I said “‘my’ is treated as a pronoun”. It is biased towards objects in your possession, but can refer to any object. (Maybe the large key is actually the key to your house, or was the first object you picked up at the start of the game. The parser has no way to understand ownership in that sense.)

This is a problem for body parts, or anything which has a concrete sense of ownership. Unfortunately, it does require some I6 hacking to work around this. (There may be an extension that deals with it, I’m not sure.)

There’s more discussion about that in this thread, along with a hack that involves replacing the word “my” before processing the command.