[Divunal-author]A word on synonyms

Phil Christensen evil_ivan@yahoo.com
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT)


--- Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph@divunal.com> wrote:
> 
> When you make an object, please remember to give it a reasonable list
> of
> synonyms.  *Especially* if the object has a string property for its
> name!  
> 
> "A yellow paperback book is here"
> $ take yellow paperback book
> "There is no yellow paperback book here."
> 
> That's rather counterintuitive...

Is there a reason why, when the search routine is going through a verbs
list of synonyms, it couldn't also check the "name" string of the
object?

-phil
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