Subject: Re: parsing option prep in dobjstr

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 16:33:52 -0700

Newbie question #147:

>How does one handle a situation where the preferred English syntax is:
>
>verb object1 [WITH features] ON THIS
>
>The optional prepositional phrase describing object1 is really messing me
>up.

Either you can get the player to always type that dobjstr surrounded by
 quotes or you can put the verb on the dobj so that it is:

dobj:verb THIS WITH ANY

and then parse iobjstr for reference to whatever `THIS' was in the
 earlier example.