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Newline in FLASK's DESC property (ZILF bug?) #21

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

There are several ways to trigger this bug. I'm using this one because it's one which you can test pretty quickly in the original release. (Spoiler warning: It doesn't happen there.)

>KICK FLASK
Flailing your leg at Dr. Nostrum's Prehydrogenated Genuine Preparation of
Naturally Nitrated
Compound Herbified Extract has no desirable effect.

It's probably because FLASK is defined like this:

<OBJECT FLASK 
        (IN LOCAL-GLOBALS)
        (DESC 
"Dr. Nostrum's Prehydrogenated Genuine Preparation of Naturally Nitrated
Compound Herbified Extract")

ZILF includes the newline in the DESC property. I guess ZILCH did not.