parents()

parents(<object>[, <objids>])

Returns the parent of <object>, then that parent’s parent, and so on, without <object> itself. When <objids> is a nonzero number, it returns objids instead of dbrefs.

The chain stops at an object you cannot examine, unless you control <object>, when you see all of it. It returns #-1 when <object> is not found or has no parent.

lparent() includes the object itself. parents() comes from RhostMUSH.

> think parents(#20)
#21 #22
> think lparent(#20)
#20 #21 #22

Output: #20’s parent is #21, whose parent is #22.

::: seealso

lparent()
parent() :::