Remove use of Unicode number sign in comments.

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the game; Jason signed on early in the process to help. The assistance
 of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is
 gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing and
 code cleanups. Aaron Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve
-test coverage.
+test coverage, and factored out the last handful of gotos.
 
 == Nomenclature ==
 
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ Bug fixes:
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
+* A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
+  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
+  "eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
+
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 
@@ -76,9 +80,6 @@ Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and
 uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores
 this behavior.
 
-Typing a numeric literal to the command prompt no longer triggers a
-fatal error. This change is reverted by the oldstyle option. 
-
 A "seed" command has been added.  This is not intended for human use
 but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ The original code was greatly complicated by a kind of bit-packing
 that was performed because the FORTRAN it was written in had no string
 type.  Text from the adventure.text file was compiled into sequences
 of sixbit code points in a restricted character set, packed 5 to a
-32-bit word (it seems clear from the code that words were originally
+32-bit word (and it seems clear from the code that words were originally
 *6* chars each packed into a PDP-10 36-bit word).  A command noun or
 verb was one of these words, and what would be string operations in a
 more recent language were all done on sequences of these words.
@@ -155,10 +156,6 @@ ways:
   and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
   languages easier.
 
-* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all are in the
-  principal command interpreter function implementing its state
-  machine.
-
 * Linked lists (for objects at a location) are implemented using an array
   of link indices. This is a surviving FORTRANism that is quite unlike
   normal practice in C or any more modern language.  We have not tried
@@ -177,6 +174,6 @@ We have made exactly one minor architectural change.  In addition to the
 old code's per-object state-description messages, we now have a per-object
 message series for state *changes*.  This makes it possible to pull a fair
 amount of text out of the arbitrary-messages list and associate those
-mesages with the objects that conceptually own them.
+messages with the objects that conceptually own them.
 
 // end