> after
> [; Take: "Taken. (Your hands are smeared with marzipan.)";
> Drop: cone.description = "The cone is a vague green mess.";
> "The cone drops to the floor and sags a little.";
> ],
>Is this the right way to define take. If it is defined this way, saying eat
>cone when you are not holding it, takes the cone but does not eat it.
>
>If you define take as :
> [; Take: print "(Your hands are cvered by marzipan.)";
>Then when you take the cone you also eat it.
>
>Which is the correct or standard way to define such things?
I would say that in the above case the way it works in the original example is
bad; your example avoids the problem, and is probably the better way to do
things. It also depends how the verb is actually coded.
>Frank Bidwell
Stephen