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Strange "LOOK ON object" response (by design?) #29

Open eriktorbjorn opened 1 year ago

eriktorbjorn commented 1 year ago 
>LOOK ON ADDRESS BOOK
The address book is undecipherable.

That's because V-LOOK-ON has a special case for readable objects:

           (<IS? ,PRSO ,READABLE>
        <TELL CTHEO " is undecipherable." CR>
        T)

It seems the main (but not always only) actions for examining an object are EXAMINE, LOOK-ON and READ. They're not always treated as the same thing, but as far as I could tell these are the readable objects and what they handle. It seems to me that at least some of them should handle LOOK-ON, but don't.

Object EXAMINE LOOK-ON READ
WFORM :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
DFORM :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
END-MAIL :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
OMNIA-SIGN :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ZTICKET :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
CONSOLE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
PARAMAIL :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
MAGAZINE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
VISA-SIGN :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
VISA :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
BEEZER :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
EXCESS :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
LETTER :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
LEAFLET :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ECLIPSE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
RECIPE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ADVENTURE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
STAMPS :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
BESTSELLERS :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
TICKET :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
FARM-NOTICE-F :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
PAPERS
PAINTING :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ABOOK :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
PAGE-3 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
PAGE-2 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
PAGE-1 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
MOUSYMAIL :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
LLAMA-MAIL :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
SHITMAIL :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
FLYER :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
COUPON :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ENVELOPE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
US-TEXT :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
SEATBELT-LIGHT :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
AIRLINE-MAGAZINE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
SAFETY-CARD :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
SAFETY-CARD-TWO :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
ODD-GATE-SIGN :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
KEY :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark:
RANDOM-CARTRIDGE :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: