Tell the player what is in the captain's pockets

[gitosaurus]

"x pants" never indicated the pockets. The pants kept a stuff_in_pockets flag that only 'look in' ever set — and 'look in' is the search that empties them. The flag was therefore FALSE for exactly as long as there was something to find, and TRUE forever after.

Before:

> x pants
Nothing seems unusual about the pair of pants.     <- quarter, keys, wallet inside
> wear pants
I put on the pair of pants.
The pants give me an exaggerated sense of my own importance.
> look in pants
I'm looking... The following objects fall out:
a quarter
some keys
a wallet
> x pants
There seem to be some bulges in the pockets.       <- they are empty

After:

> x pants
There seem to be some bulges in the pockets.
> wear pants
I picked up the pair of pants.
I put on the pair of pants.
I can feel something in the pockets as I pull them on.
The pants give me an exaggerated sense of my own importance.
> look in pockets
I'm looking... The following objects fall out:
a quarter
some keys
a wallet
> x pants
The pockets are empty.

members is already the list of what an object holds, so the flag is gone entirely and the description cannot fall out of step with the contents. No new object and no lexicon change: syn : 'pockets' already makes "pockets" addressable, so look in pockets and x pockets work.

Two things worth a second look:

• The braces around the new >> line are load-bearing. ParagraphOutputStatement::make (src/Statement.cc:509) consumes every consecutive >> literal into one statement, so an unbraced if ... then >> silently swallows the following >> line and governs it too. Without the braces the boast disappeared for any player who searched the pockets before wearing the pants.
• 'wear' reaches this method twice when the pants have to be picked up first (wearable's 'wear' does 'get' then re-sends 'wear'). never_worn is what keeps the outer pass from echoing the inner one; both new lines sit inside that guard.

Only games/starship.arch changes — no library file, so the bare/cherry goldens are untouched.

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