Reported by entrez: if magic whistle summoned a pet onto a trap, the
messages produced could be in the wrong sequence or contradictory.
The code was collecting counts and name-of-first for shift (was seen
before whistling, seen at different spot after), for appear (wasn't
seen before, now is), and for disappear (was seen before, now isn't)
before dealing with a trap at arrival location. The trap could issue
a message (including pet killed, pet sent away--teleport trap, hole,
&c--or pet changed shape--which occurred after its name/old shape was
saved for use when it was the only one in its category), and finally
the summary message was issued.
Change the code to handle arriving in a trap before the collection
into the three categories that provide feedback, and skip the latter
if any message was given during mintrap(). That handles the most
glaring anomalies like killed followed by shifted location or takes
on new shape followed by old shape shifted or appeared. But it no
longer gives specific shift/appear/disappear feedback for those cases.
Pets that don't land on traps or who land on ones that don't issue
any feedback aren't affected.
The accessibility aspect of this--message feedback in order to avoid
tedious screen reading of the map--will need to be satisfied by the
trap feedback unless/until someone comes up with a better solution.
One possibility is an option to allow player to have rloc() always
issue its vanish and appear messages. Right now it does so when magic
whistle hasn't been discovered yet, then avoids that hyper-verbosity
(if hero has multiple pets) once it has. Or the whistle code could
count the number of pets first, then behave as if such an option is in
effect when the count is small and only resort to the current summary
method if the count is larger than some threshold.
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