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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Numbers in the name array?
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 21:25:59 GMT
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Muffy St. Bernard <muffysbnospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Incredibly, all of the ampersands and greater-than symbols in this
>post seem to have turned into question marks.  Given the way my day has
>been going, this isn't surprising.

They were fine in the post, it must be a problem with
your newsreader/newsbrowser.

You can address the synonym problem ('14', 'fourteen', etc.)
by leaving extra slots in the name array and filling them with
the same entry for items with no synonyms. ('small','small' as
opposed to 'big','large'.) Which wasn't exactly your question,
but numbers specifically open up a whole can of worms which
tends to lead to recommending a parse_name with TryNumber, but
I dunno if that's really appropriate here.

SeanB
