> I'm in the gas mask room and tried to throw the bottle of glue with
> rather annoying results...
>
> > throw glass
>
> Which do you mean, the bottle of glue or the small glass vial?
>
> What now?
> > bottle
>
> I beg your pardon?
>
> What now?
>
> > throw bottle
>
> I beg your pardon?
This sounds like the description of one of the bugfixes for the 5/11
release of the Inform library (Theatre is compiled with 5/10). The
changes.txt file says, among other things, that:
"A really disastrous bug to do with the parser asking
supplementary questions (causing interpreters to behave badly
on some machines, e.g. by repeatedly saying "I beg your
pardon") has hopefully now been fixed"
Of course, I can speek for neither Brendon Wyber nor Graham Nelson;
this is just a wild guess. :-)
_
Torbjorn Andersson