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From: "Sam Hulick" <shulick@mango.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Inform's "Listen" verb
Message-ID: <1995Oct5.191623.5652@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Vallen Software
References: <66.2844.1727@tabb.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 19:16:17 -0500
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joe.mason@tabb.com (Joe Mason) writes:
>Object  wind "wind"
> with   name "wind" "chill" "breeze" "gust",
>        describe [;
>          if (location==Winding_Stair)
>            "A chill wind whistles down from the southwest, \
>              threatening to pick you up bodily and toss \
>              you onto the rocks below.";
>          rtrue;
>        ],

By the way, it's common to put a newline before the describe text.
I.e.:

  describe [;
     if (location==Winding_Stair)
       "^A chill ....

It just looks neater since it doesn't run into the room description.

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