TADS Help - Changing ADV.T

                          From Sue

Jean Childs and I have had many conversations about TADS
programming over the last few months and we discovered that we
have our own way of doing things. For one thing, I will gaily
change ADV.T but Jean prefers to modify or replace sections so
that her ADV.T stays the same. However, recently she found one
thing she *had* to change in ADV.T ... it wasn't possible to do it
any other way.  I mentioned that if I change one of the build-in
TADS files, I always note it thus:

attachVerb: deepverb
    verb = 'attach' 'connect' 'tie'          /* Sue added tie */
    sdesc = "attach"
    prepDefault = toPrep
    ioAction( toPrep ) = 'AttachTo'
;

That way, if there is ever an upgrade to ADV.T, I can easily find
which sections I changed (find 'sue') and make the appropriate
alterations to the new ADV.T. I also always back up ADV.T to
ADV.OLD before I start footering with it!

Jean gave me 10/10 for this hint! <eg>













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