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From: "Sam Hulick" <shulick@raisin.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Inform: "plural" feature.. a problem
Message-ID: <1995Oct14.040425.14205@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 04:04:19 -0500
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I'm trying to get Time-Killer #2 released. just a few more things to
touch up....

Let's say you start out with nine matches:

   You see nine matches here.

If you light one, and its name becomes "a burnt match", and you drop it
back in the pile of matches, it's just:

   You see nine matches here.

But it SHOULD say:

   You see eight matches, and a burnt match.

I figured the library checks the address of 'plural' to see if it
matches.. just like the addresses of the 'list_together' must equal each
other.  So, after a match burns out, (and this is a match class) I set
self.plural = "burnt matches";  But this didn't do the trick. :(  It
just says "You see nine burnt matches here." which is incorrect.  how
can I achieve this effect?

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