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- From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
- Subject: Re: Parser heresy (was Re: Searching for a sense of wonder)
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- References: <1e5mvtINNnlp@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Nov15.155951.3262@starbase.trincoll.edu> <BxttrL.E6x@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1ea71uINNkv1@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:14:33 GMT
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- In article <1ea71uINNkv1@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@xbar.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- writes:
-
- >... Purely for playability reasons, we
- >would NOT want to add, say, adverbs to our parser. Can you *imagine*
- >the following:
-
- >*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
- >>get the book from the troll
- >The troll sees your lame attempt from a mile away. He laughs in your face.
-
- >>get the book from the troll very quickly
- >You snatch the book away with a lightning-fast jerk.
-
- >*** Your score just went up ***
- >*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
-
- >I have one thing to say: "NOT!"
-
- To be honest, I can and I saw it in WORLD: some things you had to do slowly
- or cautiously or some such, and it seemed quite natural to me - life isn't
- just a binary do-don't. Where is the problem? Does it complicate the game
- too much? To use your example, should 'snatch the book from the troll' work,
- just because it is orthodox syntax? I just don't understand your argument.
-
- Volker
-
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- Origin: a maze of twisty little passages, all different (2:243/50.37)
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