Sand

Example 87

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Extend PUT and INSERT handling to cases where multiple objects are intended at once.

The above example does not quite work when we want the player to be allowed to take multiple objects at once before putting them somewhere: we also need to add a couple of "understand" rules borrowed from many chapters later. While the reasons may not be immediately clear, we include the demonstration here for the sake of thoroughness:

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"Sand"

Before inserting something which is not carried by the player into something:

if the noun is in the second noun, say "Already done." instead;

say "(first taking [the noun]) ";

silently try taking the noun;

if the player is not holding the noun, stop the action.

Before putting something which is not carried by the player on something:

if the noun is on the second noun, say "Already done." instead;

say "(first taking [the noun])[line break]";

silently try taking the noun;

if the player is not holding the noun, stop the action.

Understand "put [things] in [something]" as inserting it into. Understand "put [things] on [something]" as putting it on.

The Closet is a room.

A lentil is a kind of thing. A black-eyed pea is a kind of thing. The closet contains 3 lentils. The Closet contains 14 black-eyed peas. The round tin is a container in the closet. The round tin contains 17 lentils. The square tin is a container in the Closet. The square tin contains 20 black-eyed peas.

Sorting is a scene. Sorting begins when play begins. Sorting ends when all the lentils are in the round tin and all the black-eyed peas are in the square tin. When Sorting ends, end the story finally.

When play begins: say "Thanks to your cruel stepmother, you're not going anywhere until the lentils and peas are sorted."

Test me with "put peas in square tin / put lentils in round tin".

Closet
You can see three lentils, fourteen black-eyed peas, a round tin (in which are seventeen lentils) and a square tin (in which are twenty black-eyed peas) here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] put peas in square tin
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: (first taking the black-eyed pea)
Done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.
black-eyed pea: Already done.

>[2] put lentils in round tin
lentil: (first taking the lentil)
Done.
lentil: (first taking the lentil)
Done.
lentil: (first taking the lentil)
Done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.
lentil: Already done.

*** The End ***