Re: Inform: 'NotUnderstood'


Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:07:47 +0100

"Sam Hulick" (shulick@guava.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
> I'm not so sure I like the 'NotUnderstood' implementation. It is a
> major pain now because I have to do things like:
>
> orders [;
> ....
> NotUnderstood: jump anslabel;
> ...
> ],
> life [;
> Answer: .anslabel;
> <stuff>...
> ],
>
> This is because if I say "Frank, hello", it is registered as a
> NotUnderstood order. But I want him to say hi back. However, if I type
> "say hello to frank", it is registered as an 'Answer'. This is
> confusing and leads to cluttered code. In my opinion, it was much more
> practical the old way: any not-understood things just went under
> 'Answer'. Is there any way to handle this?

Couldn't you just not have the orders property? Or not use NotUnderstood:?
Or have it rfalse;?

-- 
Jools Arnold                                          jools@arnod.demon.co.uk