people

people <room|creature>

The living creatures in a room, as an iterable.

people is an alias of creatures — the two names behave identically. Use whichever reads better in context.

Arguments

• <room|creature> — a room to inspect directly, or a creature whose current room is inspected (including the creature itself). Only living creatures are included.

Returns

An iterable of creatures, exactly as creatures returns. Consume it with each, count, first, select, or another iterable consumer. An empty or unresolved argument yields null.

Examples

after command (say) {
  do "say There are [count [people $self]] of us here."
}

In the debug world the owner's room holds three creatures, so [count [people $self]] evaluates to 3 — the same result as [count [creatures $self]].

See also

• creatures — the canonical name; see it for the full description and more examples.
• fighting — only a creature's living combatants.
• Iterables and iterables · Types