Closed Roachbones closed 11 months ago
Thanks for finding this!
It was quite tricky to fix, especially since it is so random, but now I don't seem to be able to reproduce the error anymore.
The wordage description has been completely broken for a long time, at least since release 7, but I think I fixed it.
Hopefully there is no more code hiding in there that tries to generate random text in this way.
If you examine the word while also having the clock, you sometimes get an error like this:
It's trying to evaluate the substituted form of
"It appears to be one of those archetypal alarm clocks that crows at sunrise and generally makes a nuisance of itself. It shows the time to be about [the current time to the nearest five minutes in words]."
. Since thecurrent time
is a property of the clock but not the word, the word can't evaluate it.The wordage has the same issue: