[Pcgen-team-code] [JIRA] Commented: (NEWTAG-18) CHOOSE:ABILITY

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Andrew Maitland commented on NEWTAG-18:
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Choose is already part of PrettyLST Sorting. We don't need to it to validate choices as PCGen has a decent check in place.

> CHOOSE:ABILITY
> --------------
>
>                 Key: NEWTAG-18
>                 URL: http://jira.pcgen.org/browse/NEWTAG-18
>             Project: New Tag
>          Issue Type: Modify Token
>          Components: LST Tag
>    Affects Versions: 5.17.1, 5.17.2
>            Reporter: Tom Parker
>            Assignee: Andrew Maitland
>             Fix For: 5.17.4 (Alpha)
>
>
> CHOOSE:ABILITY
> SUBTOKEN: ABILITY (new)
> Syntax
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|w|x|y|y[x]|y[x,x]|x,y,y[x],y[x,x]
> w is an Ability Category (e.g. FEAT) as defined in the Ability Category LST file.
> x is a Ability PRIMITIVE
> A PRIMITIVE is an identifier of objects, and may include any number of specifications. In the case of Ability objects, there are are the three global PRIMITIVES:
> x = an Ability (specified by key)
> x = TYPE=w (w is a TYPE identifier for a Ability)
> x = !TYPE=w (w is a TYPE identifier for a Ability that would be prohibited)
> x = ALL (allow the choice of any Ability)
> y is a QUALIFIER
> A QUALIFIER is a special keyword that identifies a subset of objects that should be returned. Valid qualifiers for Ability objects are any of the Global Qualifiers.
> A comma represents "AND", meaning multiple items are evaluated independently and then any item that appears in ALL of the items is added to the list.
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|FEAT|Dodge,Toughness
> will result in NO choices because no Ability is both Dodge and Toughness.
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|FEAT|TYPE=Foo,PC
> would test for any Ability that has the Foo type (as defined in the Ability LST file) which is ALSO already selected by the PlayerCharacter
> This could also be written (probably more clearly):
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|FEAT|PC[TYPE=Foo]
> A pipe represents "OR", meaning multiple items are evaluated independently and then any item that appears in any of the items is added to the list:
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|FEAT|Dodge|Toughness
> will result in a choice between Ability Dodge and Ability Toughness.
> All commas (ANDs) are evaluated before pipes (ORs), so something like:
> CHOOSE:ABILITY|FEAT|Dodge|TYPE=Foo,PC
> would include Dodge unconditionally, in addition to any Ability that has the Foo type (as defined in the Ability LST file) which is ALSO already selected by the PlayerCharacter
> Conversion
> Current CHOOSE:ABILITY format does not change (backwards compatible) 

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