Strategy: Modeling dispensing objects and instances of things dispensed

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

In reply to someone looking to model rocks as currency I wrote an initial study toward the problem:

Basic money (no denominations or change) that can be found, earned, traded?

This is actually pretty tricky. I7 doesn’t like to deal with massive quantities of identical objects, letting you create no more than 100 in one assertion to remind you of that. But once they’re not identical, you no longer get a lot of benefits the parser normally gives you for free in terms of specifying number. This is a study toward an approach I think might work, but it’s massively incomplete and would need to be extended to cover every case of the places where one can gain or lose items. …

The basic trick to it is that there aren’t an enormous number of real objects, but each has a number called the quantity. But as I said there, it leaves a lot undone and the remainder right would be tricky.

To get the parser to target your berries in pail, look to Understanding things by their relations.