Next: *49

Need to test:

  *40 Persistence.

  *30 Box entrances and 'drop/put x in/on y' command.

Bugs:


Revisions:

  *19 Generalized exterior/interior facets
    Sub-todo:
    * Make api.Terior with intersection of Interior and Exterior
    * upward access: interior.getOuterInterior() ?

  *24 Revise Description format to be more regular
    - Replace 'noun' and 'verb' tags with general language-specific hook
    - Do we want a 'quote text' tag?
    
  *41 Make thing's exterior into a behavior

  *42 (after 41) Make rooms into things
  
  *48 makeInspectorReference should be fetched via the detail guard - this removes duplicate loading and dependence on the detail code using a prearranged kind of reference, and supports private shared references between the inspector and the references, if desired.
    
Missing features:

  *44 UI for adding behaviors.
  
  *45 Removing behaviors, and UI for it.

  *6 Parser: Object-defined commands
    - Redefine @ to be 'use local commands only'?
    - Bruce says: Don't forget the NPCs. Separate player UI and inter-object interaction.
    - For a nonunambiguous match, ask the location and each object involved (via thing facets) for command implementations (which should be stateless and/or PassByCopy?). If there is only one answer (collapsing same refs) then use that, otherwise ask the user.
      - What to do about non-prompt response?
      - Eventually provide for user choosing to permanently install command-implementation packages (mobile code? SturdyRefs?) which have matching patterns and such-that-equivalent match-stage-rejectors.

  *36 Doors: Open/closed/locked state.
    - We have the states, still need to implement open/close operations.
    
  *46 Paired doors (a->b b->a)

  *22 More interesting NPCs

  *23 Commands for interaction with container contents - 'put * in *'/'take * from *'

  *10 UI for making: keys, doors
    - to retain complete brand pair in key-only or door-only, give privileged facets optSealer/optUnsealer properties
    
  *11 Spoof detection for events
    - Display thing names where the thing contributed the message text differently.
    - Display separate attributions iff the message was not made by any of the participants.
    - Restrict characters such as \n, or give other cues as to line breaks.
  
  *14 (after *6?) 'give' command
  
  *47 Command for putting things in containers.


Potential features/revisions:

  *12 If no pet name matching argument, ask user if matching nickname is OK, in which case atomically continue the command and define the pet name
    - Currently, the recognizer has no ability to do this.
  
  *13 Summoners (see below)

  
Waiting on E updates:

  *15 (faster E) Automatic checkpoints
  
  *21 (EIO) Telnet character control


Currently unused code:
  util.addComponent
  util.promised__quasiParser
  util.name.formatName

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Mac OS X JVM resource incantations:

  rune -J-Xmx500m -J-XX:ThreadStackSize=10240

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Comment keywords:
  FIXME
  fixme
  NOTE

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Reference diagram for containment:
        
interior<-->contentInfo------------------->facetForLocation----\
      ^          ^v                                 ^v          v
       \----facetForContent<-------------------locationInfo<-->exterior

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Summoners - for sturdy presence/holding (containment relationships surviving partition):

contentInfo asks its held exterior for a summoner, which is a SturdyRef to an object having a moveInto method

On unserialization, or when a contentInfo's exterior is accessed, if the ref is broken, the summoner is invoked.

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def settled {
  to __printOn(out :TextWriter) :void { out.print("settled") }
  to coerce(value, optEjector) :any { if (Ref.isSettled(value)) {value} else {throw.eject(optEjector, "must be settled")} }
}