Topicclass
thing.t[9994], english.t[2093]
A Topic is something that the player character can refer to in the course of conversation or look up in a book, but which is not implemented as a physical object in the game. Topics can be used for abstract concepts such as life, liberty and happiness, or for physical objects that are referred to but not actually implemented as Things in the game, such as Alfred the Great or the Great Wall of China.
Modified in
english.t[2093]:
Modification to the Topic class so that when constructing a new Topic a
separate apostrophe-S token is concatenated with the previous word when
storing the name (which undoes the effect on building the name of what
the English-language tokenizer does with apostrophe-S).
class Topic : Mentionable
Superclass Tree (in declaration order)
Topic
Mentionable
LMentionable
` object`
Subclass Tree
(none)
Global Objects
(none)
Summary of Properties
Inherited from Mentionable :
ambiguouslyPlural disambigGroup disambigMatchPhrases disambigName disambigOrder distinguishByContents isHer isHim isIt massNoun matchPhrases matchPhrasesExclude name nominalContents person plural proper qualified roomTitle states vocab vocabWords
Inherited from LMentionable :
acronymPluralPat alphaCharPat aName apostPluralPat apostSPat deannotatePat dictComp dummyName elevenEighteenPat emptyVocabWords esPluralPat firstWordPat heName herName hersName himName iesPluralPat irregularPlurals lastWordPat leadingTagOrQuotePat menPluralPat objInName objIntoName objName objOutOfName oneLetterAnWordPat oneLetterWordPat ownerNamed pluralPat posPat possAdj possEnding possNoun prepList prepPhrasePat prepWordPat pronounMap properNamePat properPat reflexiveName specialAOrAn tagOrQuotePat thatName thatObjName theName theObjName trimPat truncationLength weakWordPat
Summary of Methods
construct getTopicText setKnown
Inherited from Mentionable :
filterResolveList matchName matchNameCommon matchNameDisambig phraseMatchName simpleMatchName
Inherited from LMentionable :
addDictWord addVocab addVocabWord aNameFrom aNameFromPoss classInit contify distinguishedName ifPronoun inheritVocab initVocab initVocabWord locify matchPronoun pluralNameFrom pluralWordFrom possessify pronoun removeVocabWord replaceVocab theNameFrom theNameIs
Properties
familiar
Whether the player character knows of the existence of this topic. By default we assume this is true.
known
Test whether this topic is known to the player character
Methods
construct (name_)OVERRIDDEN
thing.t[9995], english.t[2094]
no description available
getTopicText ( )
Return a textual description of this topic, which will normally be just its name. We use the vocab as fall-back alternative.
setKnown ( )
Make this topic known to the player character
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