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From: bl947@torfree.net (Arlo Smith)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Empty command
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:50:47 GMT
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Andrew C. Plotkin (erkyrath+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: My cheap-and-dirty hack (pretty much straight out of "Weather") is as
: follows: give the bottle a before:EmptyT clause like

Thanks, I'll see what I can do. By the way, someone posted me a solution
privately which you may want to comment on. He can't post on the 
newsgroup and asked me to forward his answer:

From: Miron Schmidt (s590501) <s590501@tfh-berlin.de>
Message-Id: <199606091733.SAA24092@compute.tfh-berlin.de>
Subject: EmptyT sub routine (Inform)
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Hi Arlo!
 
It's rather simple really. You just have to insert the line
Replace EmptyT;
_before_ including VerbLib. Then, at some point, you have to define this
routine on your own. The easiest way to do this is, of course, to copy it
from VerbLib and modify it accordingly.
 
Keep in mind though, that the player should still get an appropriate
line when trying to "empty something in something_else", where
something_else is no container.
 
Miron.
 
P.S. I'm still unable to post into newsgroups, so you can post this mail,
if you want to. But I guess similar answers to this one are on their way
already.

