Change of object name

[Po. Prune]

Is it possible to change the name of an object?
For instance, if the player examines a skull and finds a loose tooth. If s/he takes it it will look silly to still have it named the loose tooth.
I know it can be done by creating two objects and swapping them the first time the player take the tooth, but I'm just wondering if there's an easier way.

[adriftste]

Is it possible to change the name of an object?

This isn't possible, I thing swapping two objects is your best solution.

[Po. Prune]

Thanks, that's what I thought...
I've created two objects and it works fine. I had just hoped there was an easier way.

[Duncan_B]

Why not have a variable as part of the name (the %loose% tooth) that changes when the player picks it up?

[adriftste]

This certainly works for the displayed name of the object, however it is not possible to refer to the tooth by the variable.

x tooth is fine however x loose tooth or x pulled tooth or x whatever tooth could only be refered to by the player as x tooth or x %loose% tooth. (assuming that %loose% is the adjective and tooth is the noun).

[ralphmerridew]

Just have "loose" and "pulled" as synonyms. The player will be able to refer to it as "pulled tooth" before extracting it, but so what?

(In Inform or TADS, it would be possible to have a single object and adjust whether "loose" or "pulled" is a valid synonym at runtime, but that's probably overkill for this problem.)

[Po. Prune]

Thanks to all for the replies.
I went with the swapping of objects and it works ok.