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Kevin Bracey wrote:
> > I guess it's not that odd that describe would be additive, in case one
> > wants to have a general class description, then a specific object
> > description,
>
> Your specific one would be called first, actually. Probably tricky to come
> up with a situation that would look nice. Using the superclass operators
> (self.NPC_Engine::describe) would be more flexible.

In that case, icky icky, bleh. Maybe instead of changing the library as
you suggested, the better change would be to remove the additive
declaration from describe (in linklpa)?

Just a thought...

Chip
