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From: "Sam Hulick" <shulick@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Inform: Large sums of money
Message-ID: <1995Aug19.232556.19287@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 23:25:47 -0500
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I'm having a lot of questions as I try to work on my game.. :)

How can I have someone have LOTS of money?  The way to do, say, gold
coins is:

Class coinclass
 with .... etc.

Object gc1 "gold coin" class coinclass;
Object gc2....
 ...   gcN

But I don't want to declare, say, 500 separate dollars!  How can I have
my player have a huge sum of money, and pay people certain amounts (give
eighty dollars to XX)?

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