Should the game handle "UNTIE STRAP"?
eriktorbjorn opened this issue · 0 comments
eriktorbjorn commented
>TIE STRAP
There's no point in doing that.
>UNTIE STRAP
You can't untie a pair of binoculars.
The strap and the binoculars are actually the same object, BINOS
, but the BINOS-F
routine has a separate case for when you refer to them as "STRAP":
<COND (<AND <THIS-PRSO?>
<NOUN-USED? ,W?STRAP>>
<COND (<VERB? TIE-UP TIE UNTANGLE FOLD UNFOLD SWING PLAY>
<COND (<NOT <IN? ,PRSO ,PLAYER>>
<YOUD-HAVE-TO "be holding" ,PRSO>
<RTRUE>)>
<WASTE-OF-TIME>
<RTRUE>)
(<OR <VERB? EXAMINE>
<INTBL? ,PRSA ,MOVEVERBS ,NMVERBS>>
<TELL "The strap is ">
<ATTACHED-TO>
<RTRUE>)>)>
But it seems odd to me that it handles TIE
and UNTANGLE
, but not UNTIE
. Should it?