nethack.rankin 7abf238f1b probing vs Schroedinger's Cat (trunk only) ...

Someone in the newsgroup complained about zapping probing at a large
box dropped by a quantum mechanic and being told that it was empty rather
than that it held a corpse or live cat.  This sidesteps the issue by
reporting "the box seems empty" instead of "the box is empty", and not
setting its contents-known flag.  (That message is the main difference
between probing and the assorted other methods of observation [telepathy
and monster detection and possibly Warning for live cat, object detection
and food detection for dead cat's corpse] which might be expected to
trigger the cat's fate but don't.)  This also makes probing of self and
of monsters set the contents-known and locking-known flags for containers
in inventory, same as is done for probing which hits objects.  (Display of
container contents still only occurs for loose objects, not in inventory.)

2007-02-18 02:20:59 +00:00

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