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You can wear an object while it's in a container #16

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago 
>INVENTORY
I am grasping...
  A hollow container
    The hollow container contains...
      A usable extension

>WEAR EXTENSION
It's now being worn.

>INVENTORY
I am grasping...
  A hollow container
    The hollow container contains...
      A usable extension (being worn)

It seems like the syntax for "WEAR" should be able to weed out these cases, but I'm not sure how. So maybe it's easier to fix it in V-WEAR?

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

I was going to check how Planetfall handles this, but it turns out that it doesn't:

>INVENTORY
You are carrying:
  An ID card
  A brochure
  A Patrol-issue self-contained multi-purpose scrub brush
  A Patrol uniform (being worn)
  The Patrol uniform contains:
    A chronometer (being worn)
eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

Other games seem to have the same problem. Suspect, at the very least. When I tried with Stationfall and Plundered Hearts, it seems they will silently take the object out of the container before putting it on. I don't know what's sensible.