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From: pdarnows@rwd.goucher.edu (Bruce Zambini)
Subject: Re: Inform 6 Request
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:26:36 GMT
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John Kornhaus (zarquon@aol.com) wrote:
: Requests so far sound good... here's another:

: I'd like the add_to_scope property to work for room objects. In the tests
: I've done, I can only get it to work for objects placed in a room. I have
: several objects I want to share between rooms, but don't want to declare
: them as scenery and use the found_in property (unless found_in can also be
: a routine--I haven't tried that yet).

found_in can in fact be a routine.  One example given from the Designer's 
Manual went something like this:

Object Sun "sun"
  with name "sun"...
       /*miscellaneous routines*/...
       found_in (if (location has light) rtrue);
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