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Janny  
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 8:13 am
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From: Janny <kitza...@gmx.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:13:45 +0200
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 8:13 am
Subject: [TADS 3] Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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Hi.

Some of my coin classes don't behave and I can't figure out what's
different about those that do.

Example:

You see fifteen coins (three marks, three dollars, three pennies, three
crowns, and three
zorkmids) here.

]get coin
Which coin do you mean, a crown, a dollar, a zorkmid, a penny, or a mark?

]penny
Taken.

That's what I wanted. BUT:

]get coin
Which coin do you mean, a crown, a dollar, a zorkmid, a penny, or a mark?

]dollar
dollar: Taken.
dollar: Taken.
dollar: Taken.

The zorkmids behave like the dollars, too.

The code is a crude dumbing-down of the coins from sample.t:

class Coin: Thing
    vocabWords = 'coin*coins'
    listWith = [coinGroup]
    collectiveGroup = coinCollective
;
coinGroup: ListGroupParen
    showGroupCountName(lst)    
    {
        "<<spellIntBelowExt(lst.length(), 100, 0, DigitFormatGroupSep)>>
coins";
    }
    compareGroupItems(a, b) { return b.coinValue - a.coinValue; }
;
coinCollective: ItemizingCollectiveGroup '*coins' 'coins'
;
class Penny: Coin 'penny*pennies' 'penny'
    isEquivalent = true
    coinValue = 9
;
class Mark: Coin 'mark*marks' 'mark'
    isEquivalent = true
    coinValue = 40
;
class Crown: Coin 'crown*crowns' 'crown'
    isEquivalent = true
    coinValue = 5
;
class Dollar: Coin 'dollar*dollars' 'dollar'
    isEquivalent = true
    coinValue = 10
;
class Zorkmid: Coin 'zorkmid*zorkmids' 'zorkmid'
    isEquivalent = true
    coinValue = 1
;

I'm confused, to say the least...


 
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Khelwood  
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 8:57 am
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From: Khelwood <Khelw...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:57:11 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 8:57 am
Subject: Re: Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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On 30 Apr, 13:13, Janny <kitza...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

Normal word truncation length is 6. That's probably why the coins with
longer names are behaving differently. There was a bug in some earlier
versions of TADS 3 (I believe 3.0.10 to 3.0.12 had this issue) that
resulted in nouns being parsed plurally when they were as long as the
truncation length. http://www.tads.org/t3doc/lib/adv3/changes.htm#3013
. What release of TADS 3 are you using?

 
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 9:06 am
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From: Janny <kitza...@gmx.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:06:20 +0200
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 9:06 am
Subject: Re: Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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Khelwood wrote:
> Normal word truncation length is 6. That's probably why the coins with
> longer names are behaving differently. There was a bug in some earlier
> versions of TADS 3 (I believe 3.0.10 to 3.0.12 had this issue) that
> resulted in nouns being parsed plurally when they were as long as the
> truncation length. http://www.tads.org/t3doc/lib/adv3/changes.htm#3013
> . What release of TADS 3 are you using?

3.0.16!

My farthings weren't working either. Five letters or less, and it's
fine...


 
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 9:13 am
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From: Khelwood <Khelw...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 9:13 am
Subject: Re: Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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On 30 Apr, 13:57, Khelwood <Khelw...@gmail.com> wrote:

OK, I've just tried it in 3.0.16. It seems to be a surviving bug.
It is related to truncation length, so until someone works out a
proper fix, you can get around it by extending or disabling the
truncation length: put
     parserTruncationLength = some number bigger than 6
 or  parserTruncationLength = nil
in your gameMain.

 
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 9:14 am
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From: Khelwood <Khelw...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:14:58 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 9:14 am
Subject: Re: Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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On 30 Apr, 14:13, Khelwood <Khelw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oops. It's parserTruncLength, not parserTruncationLength. Sorry.

 
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 9:18 am
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From: Janny <kitza...@gmx.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:18:56 +0200
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 9:18 am
Subject: Re: Some coin classes act differently, can't tell why!
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Thanks for the help!

 
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