Parser Problem

• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:58:37 PDT
• From:
  Coolin MacKaarmick <colin@tripod.tripod.com>
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I'm getting a strange parser error, and I'd love it if someone could 
explain it/help me work around it.

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@verb me:@junk this none any
@program me:@junk
player:tell("Hello, world.");
.

@junk me
Hello, world.

@junk me nothing
I don't understand that.
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For some reason it's not finding the verb once I throw in an iobjstr.  
This is very strange.  The only thing I can think of is that because the 
parser looks first for the prepstr and divides the remaining arguments 
into dobjstr and iobjstr on the basis of the position of the prepstr, the 
parser considers "me nothing" to be the dobjstr, "" to be the iobjstr, 
and thus can't match an object on either of those.

If this is right, has anyone found a workaround?  I'd like to do 
something like:

@tip waiter $1

rather than 

@tip $1 to waiter

(even though in this particular example there's not much difference.)

... and if it's wrong, what's the answer?  :)

Thanks,
Colin


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