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<LI><em>From</em>: "Travis S. Casey" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</A>&gt;</LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:52:02 -0500 (CDT)</LI>
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Katrina McClelan wrote:
&gt; On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Cynbe ru Taren wrote:

&gt; &gt; 1 | get the sword from the second bag
&gt; &gt; 2 | get sword 2.bag
&gt; &gt; 3 | ge sw 2.bag
&gt; 
&gt; &gt; useful for flattening the initial learning curve.  To the best of my
&gt; &gt; knowledge.  ("bag.2" or "bag2" "bag 2" would probably be preferred to
&gt; &gt; "2.bag" though, imho.)
&gt; 
&gt; I've seen too many diku derivative muds use the 2.bag notation... it's
&gt; expected by most mud veterans, and thus something they generally try.  Not
&gt; that it would hurt to support all of the above.

I've never seen it supported on LPs or Tiny-derivatives.  It's something
that most *Diku* (and Diku-derivative) veterans might try, but I'm not
sure about "most mud veterans."

(Heck, most mud veterans *I* know try looking at the help to see what sort
of commands are supported first, so they'd be able to deal with any
reasonable command structure.)

I do agree, though, that it would be a good idea for a mud to support that
syntax as well as the LP-style "sword 2" and the English "second sword"
and "2nd sword".

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00397" HREF="msg00397.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>, 
Jp Calderone <a href="mailto:exarkun#flashmail,com">exarkun#flashmail,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 23:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00412" HREF="msg00412.html">[MUD-Dev] Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>, 
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Thu 03 Jun 1999, 01:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00403" HREF="msg00403.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>, 
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 23:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00389" HREF="msg00389.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#marcus,pants.nu">kitkat#marcus,pants.nu</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 14:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00393" HREF="msg00393.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 15:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00404" HREF="msg00404.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 23:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00480" HREF="msg00480.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Martin C Sweitzer <a href="mailto:msew+@andrew.cmu.edu">msew+@andrew.cmu.edu</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 15:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00506" HREF="msg00506.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Jp Calderone <a href="mailto:exarkun#flashmail,com">exarkun#flashmail,com</a>, Fri 04 Jun 1999, 22:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 13:49 GMT
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