Re: [Inform] Perspective based coding of objects

[Daniel Barkalow <iabervon@iabervon.mit.edu>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Don Rae wrote:

> It's a good idea, but how would you deal with the "name" identifier part of
> the ear of corn, ie:
> 
> Perspective corn with
> name "ear" "of" "corn" "yellow" "joint" "seedling"
> etc etc
> 
> In this case, Joe, the alien, and the beatnik can all refer to the same
> object via the same names, which is wrong for these purposes.

Actually, in Suspended you can have any of the robots refer to a object 
by any name than any of them understand. E.g., "SENSA, GET W1" works just 
as well as "SENSA, GET WEDGE".

	-Iabervon
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