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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, 12 Aug 97 10:28:54 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00354.html">Pine.GSO.3.96.970803152545.27011J-100000@dryslwyn</A>>, on 08/03/97
at 11:27 AM, Martin Keegan <martin#cam,sri.com> said:
>On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
>> In <33bc2b5e.28988475#relay,mnsinc.com>, on 06/26/97
>> at 08:59 AM, caliban#darklock,com (Caliban Tiresias Darklock) said:
>> >cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray) wrote:
>> >I made this exact same observation earlier in the discussion, along
>> >with the associated mention that this precludes the use of spaces in
>> >names. No response was ever made on the matter.
>>
>> One approach is to make command parsing a question of simple and
>> uniform expression evaluation. Make the rules simple and easy to
>> learn, and the rest should be almost automatic.
>Another approach is to model it as closely as possible on natural
>English, to the extent that typing in
>prompt> how do i fight
>should bring up the appropriate help section.
I don't see that this is an exception to the concept of having user
commands follow a simple and uniform expression syntax.
>> The simplist approach is defining that an ID string is a single
>> continuous string of non-white space characters, or a string of any
>> characters enclosed by quotes. Its ugly, but it works.
>shoving quotes and equals signs into the syntax are anathema to me.
Agreed. I'll admit exceptions however for human readability and
disambiguity.
>> More workable, but tougher to implement is automatic attempted parsing
>> of names as the command is parsed. There are obvious ambiguity traps,
>> but it can be done. The rule then becomes: an ID string is defined as
>> the shortest possible sequence of tokens in a given command which can
>> be used to uniquely identify a an indentity given the command's
>> context. A lot more runtime work, you'll need ambiguity trapping, but
>> it also works and works predictably.
>so long as you don't have too many addressable players and monsters
>in the game, the pruning and disambiguation is not all that hard.
>It's worth it though.
The fact that I don't have a global namespace really helps here.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00018" HREF="msg00018.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 02 Jul 1997, 04:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00080" HREF="msg00080.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sun 06 Jul 1997, 00:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00086" HREF="msg00086.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 08 Jul 1997, 02:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00354" HREF="msg00354.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
Martin Keegan <a href="mailto:martin#cam,sri.com">martin#cam,sri.com</a>, Mon 04 Aug 1997, 01:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00491" HREF="msg00491.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 12 Aug 1997, 17:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00509" HREF="msg00509.html">[MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
Cynbe ru Taren <a href="mailto:cynbe#laurel,actlab.utexas.edu">cynbe#laurel,actlab.utexas.edu</a>, Wed 13 Aug 1997, 04:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00015" HREF="msg00015.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] noise</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 02 Jul 1997, 03:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00035" HREF="msg00035.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] noise</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Wed 02 Jul 1997, 15:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00013" HREF="msg00013.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Room-based vs. coordinate-based</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 02 Jul 1997, 03:25 GMT
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