Re: Plural Decorations in TADS


14 Dec 1995 20:50:56 GMT

Neil K. Guy (nkg@grid.direct.ca) wrote:

: That only helps for items that are decorations. If you want to add plural
: forms for every single verb, it becomes a real hassle. I'm talking *every*
: verb - "the clothes don't smell like anything", "the doors aren't open",
: "the turnips aren't making any sound" etc.

Or how about this:

There are only about four words that cause this problem, right? So add
the following:

modify thing
itPron="it"
thatPron="that"
isVerb="is"
doesVerb="does"
;

class pluralObj:thing
itPron="they"
thatPron="those"
isVerb="are"
doesVerb="do"
;

Then you can just do a search-and-replace (okay, a *careful*
search-and-replace) in adv.t for "it," "that," "is," and "does," and replace
them with <<self.itPron>>, <<self.thatPron>>, <<self.isVerb>> and
<<self.doesVerb>>.