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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 20 May 97 18:25:42 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00600.html">9705191729.80y0#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>>, on 05/19/97
at 08:02 PM, cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray) said:
>In earlier discussions, Chris L. had talked about nested
>questions/prompts, and ways of suspending them indefinitely using an
>escape character to allow you to force through a non-answering
>command without cancelling the question/prompt. This kind of thing is
>what would bother me as a user -
>the "stack" in my brain is only about 2 deep!
I have several pieces which contribute here:
A given character may enter a nested prompt state.
That state can be exited either by answering the prompt or
by entering a blank command.
Any command entered at a nested prompt by default will attempt
to answer the prompt. Should it fail to answer the prompt
the command will fail.
A command may be prefixed with a special flag character
indicating that this command is to be handed to the default
command processor (ie no prompt), without removing the prompt
state.
Where this gets messy:
A single human player can simultaneously control one or more
characters
Each character may simultaneously control one or more bodies.
Each body is synonymous with that virtual lump of
nerve-twitching meat I mentioned earlier.
Each body may enter a prompted command state.
A little while ago I gave an example which showed the on-screen
appearance for a human playing several characters each of which was
controlling one or more bodies. I could re-quote if needed.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 02:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00664" HREF="msg00664.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 13:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00665" HREF="msg00665.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 13:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00600" HREF="msg00600.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 00:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00646" HREF="msg00646.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 08:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00803" HREF="msg00803.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
Raz <a href="mailto:muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk">muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk</a>, Mon 26 May 1997, 10:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00828" HREF="msg00828.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 13:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00598" HREF="msg00598.html">Re: (fwd) Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 23:57 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00597" HREF="msg00597.html">Re: Player coding and security</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 23:51 GMT
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