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Wrong response when examining the sky while in orbit

Open eriktorbjorn opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

>LOOK
Earth Orbit, in a soap bubble

You're five hundred miles above a sea of ice, hurtling in profound silence over
the Arctic atmosphere. Layers of crimson and violet describe the curve of the
horizon, blending imperceptibly into a black sky crowded with stars.

You watch helplessly as the white door dwindles to a distant speck, vanishing at
last between the horns of the rising moon.

>EXAMINE SKY
The sky are remarkably bright and numerous.

Far ahead, a satellite drifts into view.

The SKY-F routine calls STARS-F like this:

<ROUTINE SKY-F ()
	 <COND (<IS? ,HERE ,INDOORS>
		<CANT-SEE-FROM-HERE ,SKY>
		<RFATAL>)
	       (<HERE? IN-ORBIT ON-SAT>
		<COND (<STARS-F>
		       <RTRUE>)>
		<RFALSE>)>

And STARS-F will print the following:

	       (<VERB? EXAMINE LOOK-INSIDE LOOK-UP>
		<TELL CTHEO
" are remarkably bright and numerous." CR>
		<RTRUE>)

Instead of CTHEO it should probably use CTHE ,STARS.

eriktorbjorn avatar Sep 18 '20 17:09 eriktorbjorn

For another sky-related issue, see https://github.com/the-infocom-files/trinity/issues/20, but I decided to make this one a separate issue after some back and forth.

eriktorbjorn avatar Sep 19 '20 05:09 eriktorbjorn