The library thoughtfully provides thedark.initial,
but it is never called unless you are diabolical enough to make thedark contained by
some location, which I'm sure is not what it was meant for. The DM is
a bit contradictory about the purpose of thedark.initial, but the
functionality that makes the most sense is that it is called at the
transition from lighted to darkened. This makes up a gap in
functionality: NewRoom() is called on light-to-light and dark-to-light;
DarkToDark() is called on dark-to-dark, but absolutely nothing is called
on light-to-dark. Move line 1962 of verblibm.h down two lines as shown:
About Patches
Issue L61118 [previous patch]
'thedark.initial' is never called
Submitted by: Nathan Summers
Appeared in: Library 6/11 or before
Fixed in: -
Problem
Solution
[ NoteArrival descin;
if (location ~= lastdesc) {
if (location.initial ~= 0) PrintOrRun(location, initial);
if (location == thedark) { lastdesc = thedark; return; } ! This line moved
descin = location;
NewRoom();
lastdesc = descin;
}
];
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