I7: objects of a kind named after their owner

[Olav Müller]

Hiho,

I have a "kind of thing", let's say "balls". I would like every ball to have a person as an owner, something like this:

A ball is a kind of thing. A ball has a person called owner.

My problem now is, that I can't find a way to reference the owner in the description or the printed name of the balls.

[code]
The ball has a printed name "[owner of ball]'s Ball". The description is "This is [owner of ball]'s ball."

[/code]

These don't work. Neither does "noun" instead of "ball" for obvious reasons (noun isn't always set, as it is set by the parser, in actions like "inventory" noun isn't set)

Do you have an idea for me? This can't be that far out... it seems to me, that there should be a fairly obvious answer to my problem that I am just unable to see.

Thanks,
Olav

[Andrew Plotkin]

Here, Olav M�ller <olav.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiho,
>
> I have a "kind of thing", let's say "balls". I would like every ball to have a person as an owner, something like this:
>
> A ball is a kind of thing. A ball has a person called owner.
>
> My problem now is, that I can't find a way to reference the owner in the description or the printed name of the balls.
>
> [code]
> The ball has a printed name "[owner of ball]'s Ball". The description is "This is [owner of ball]'s ball."
> [/code]

"Owner of the item described" is the phrasing you want.

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[Olav Müller]

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:50:03 PM UTC+2, Andrew Plotkin wrote:
> > My problem now is, that I can't find a way to reference the owner in the description or the printed name of the balls.
>

> "Owner of the item described" is the phrasing you want.

Thanks very much. I was confused by the fact tha simply using "owner" would yield a result but that result was a property object, which didn't help me that much ;-)

Thanks,
Olav