Subject: Re: Utilities

From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:23:39 -0700

[email-masked] (Clarence Regis Wilson) writes:
>   Q:  $match_utils has various match algorithms, giving the ability to type
>   "look at first box", "look at my box" etc.  I seem to remember in the old
>   database that they were considered "experimental" and would be added later.
>   Have they been added?  Will they?  

The main problem is that these were written quite some time ago, before the
protocols for object matching were ironed out to the extent that they are
now.  In particular, they were written before the distinction between :match
and :match_object was terribly clear --- see `help object-matching'
(in $core_help) for details.

Harmonizing #3879 (G7's matching room which also happens to be the main
customer of $match_utils) with the current core (not only the
:match/:match_object convention but also the new :huh conventions as well) is
probably worth doing, but I haven't had a chance to really look at what this
involves yet --- if there are lots of :match/:match_object verbs on RPG
rooms, we're probably hosed.