Answer to Exercise 65

| ANSWER TO EXERCISE 65
| Because the parser might go on to reject the line it's working on: for instance, if the player typed "shazam splurge'' then the message "Shazam!'' followed by a parser complaint will be somewhat unedifying.

Back to the exercise in section 26

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