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Extra space when asking some people about your wristwatch more than once #30

Open eriktorbjorn opened 1 year ago

eriktorbjorn commented 1 year ago 
>ASK TRAVEL AGENT ABOUT THE WRISTWATCH
"I knew a guy called Prosser who had one just like it."

>ASK TRAVEL AGENT ABOUT THE WRISTWATCH
he travel agent sighs. "I already told you about  the time."

The extra space is printed in ASK-CHAR-ABOUT:

                   <TELL CTHE .CHAR
" sighs. \"I already told you about ">
                   <COND (<EQUAL? .SUBJECT .CHAR>
                      <TELL "myself">)
                     (<EQUAL? .SUBJECT ,WRISTWATCH>
                      <TELL " the time">)
                     (T
                      <TELL THE .SUBJECT>)>
                   <TELL ".\"" CR>